> From: Boris Liberman <[email protected]> > > I think that what's moral for individual human beings does not > necessarily apply to corporations. Specifically, I think that the so > called grey area is much broader for corporations than it is for you and me. >
In theory that's correct. In practice it's wrong. I know it. You know it. The CEO's know it. (I'm not implying you didn't) :) (Frank wrote:) >> Doesn't mean they should stop making money from on of their biggest >> clients, does it? This is a simple ongoing commodity transaction that >> is completely divorced from the intellectual property departments >> duking it out. (Boris wrote:) > > Well, no. In fact, there is nothing immoral in stopping dealing with > Apple. Like it is always said - "nothing personal, just business"... > Someone up the ladder came up with the power point presentation that > appears to support the idea that in terms of profit this would be the > best move for Samsung and hence the decision was eventually made. > > I am surprised it wasn't made way earlier, in fact. There's several ways to look at it. I'm not a Samsung fanboy or necessarily anti-Apple. On the one hand, if you go suing your supplier who's also a competitor... well I don't know how much profit Samsung makes on their business with Apple, but $1B probably covers what they made on A LOT of iPad displays and other chips. So it sort of looks like, in a way, that Apple would be, in essence, getting Samsung's product for less than the agreed upon price. Score for Apple. If I were Samsung would I want to do business with a company that was essentially getting my product at a cut-rate price via litigation? Rumor has it Apple was already looking for lower cost displays. If I were Samsung I'd tell Apple to shove it, which they may have done. All businesses have a legitimate interest in making a fair and honest profit. On the other hand I read that $1B is only a day or two's worth of revenue for Samsung, and that the lawsuit may have elevated Samsung in the eyes of some as a worthy Apple competitor. If so, a possible misstep by Apple. I don't countenance the theft of intellectual property via Samsung or Apple and I don't know where the truth is there. I certainly don't agree with 'you cant make a product that's slim, rectangular, has rounded corners and uses icons or gestures that are meaningful'. It seems that corporations, like governments, once in power, do everything possible to stay in power and suppress contenders. The actions of a corporation are the deliberate actions of thinking human beings. Those actions are either fair and legitimate or they are not, regardless of how the legal profession wishes to spin it. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
