Ahh, the joys of due diligence! IANAL, but...
Company executives are legally compelled to maximise shareholder income, just so long as they don't break any criminal laws in doing so. Fail to outsource your clothing factory to China? Yes, you can get sued for that... Nowadays, the only real option for a CxO of a public company with any morals is to defend "doing the right thing" as public relations. And as good PR attracts customers, then it's just another case of acting in the interests of shareholders, right? Pretty hard to sue someone for good marketing. Sad that it has to be that way... On 7 September 2010 18:51, Marcelo Fukushima <takesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2010/9/7 Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> > > >> >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Miroslav Pokorny < >> miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Im not sure if its business or an American thing but it seems you forget >>> to about being human which is sometimes mostly about doing the right thing >>> regardless of what the law says. Overall most companies forget that simple >>> fact. >> >> >> Expecting companies (public ones at that) to follow the same moral laws as >> humans is quite naïve. Besides, Google has contributed to open source in >> more ways than I can even remember. You are upset that they don't match your >> expectations in that area, but try to step back and apply your reasoning to >> other major software companies like Oracle, Apple or HP. How does Google >> look then? >> >> >>> Too me its like taking an open source library, making lots of cash and >>> never even giving the authors a donation. Yes its legal but its overall, its >>> disappointing. >> >> >> Google has hired *a lot* of open source developers to work on their open >> source project. That sounds even more generous than a donation to me. >> >> How many other companies do that? >> > > i can only remember Sun doing something of the like, but that was back in > the good old days > > >> >> -- >> Cédric >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > http://mapsdev.blogspot.com/ > Marcelo Takeshi Fukushima > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
