On Monday 29 December 2008 11:15, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 29 Dec 2008 10:55:42 am jtd wrote: > > > companies exist to make money - not to comply with ethics. > > > > Companies exist to provide a service to society. In the process > > they make money. > > they exist to make money - they make it by providing a service to > society. Some companies realise that it is good business to be > ethical - others dont.
That looks like a glass half empty. > But people invest in companies to make money > - not to promote ethics. It's a foolish investor who invests in an unethical company. His money is going to diminish quickly - Satyam anyone?. And here we are talking of ethics, not illegality. In the case of M$ it's plain old breaking the law, over and over ad nauseum. Ethical behaviour in the case of M$ would be like many of their products. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
