Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You haven’t named a decent person in your post.
The Google founders are simply more secretive in their lifestyles compared to Musk. They dropped the “Don’t Be Evil” motto a long time ago.
Honestly, Google back in the day was a great company. They were focused on putting the best product for consumer, supported open standards, kept ads at a minimum… A bit like Valve today. They really were “good guys”.
Then I’m not sure what happened, they stopped caring and left the MBAs in charge maybe.
It was the serifs in their logo. They ditched those serifs and all bets on morality were off
They went public, simple as that.
Don’t be evil came from an ad agency that did tobacco ads.
SoJB@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Bill Gates, a decent person? LMAO is OP literally a kid or something.
Americans are the most propagandized people in the world and simultaneously genuinely believe they are not propagandized, it’s incredible.
curry@programming.dev 2 months ago
It’s incredle how public perceptions change, huh? Bill Gates was considered the devil back when MS was steamrolling against open source software.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 months ago
MS’s patent protection racket and monopoly practices continue. They have had no conversion, they are just adapting. Buying GitHub and LinkedIn to stay relevant. WSL and VSCode are to slow the bleed of developers away from their platform and tools. Azure Linux is because they have to. They are under pressure by the market and because all the bright young things coming in will all want Linux. They are still a closed source company trying to get people stuck into their webs and paying.
curry@programming.dev 2 months ago
Agreed, the foss-friendly image is just a facade. MS is never going to commit to open source as it directly threatens their bloodline.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree. Someone already put links showing how bad Jobs and Gates were earlier in this thread.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
But you see he invest 0.1% of their money to save some people in the world, sometimes. He is so generous.