"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:53:29 -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
>>>> Wrong. The only obligation Microsoft has is to their shareholders.
> With training and/or a good dose of enlightened self-interest, most
> psychopaths are perfectly capable of learning to not be selfish vicious
> brutes who care only for themselves and perhaps a few others. Or rather,
> to stop *acting* as selfish vicious brutes. Not caring about the harm done
> by your corporate machinery is not a crime. Actually doing that harm is,
> or at least should be, although sadly when we allow the psychopaths to
> make the rules, they tend to make rules that allow themselves to prosper
> at our expense.
You are making the assumption that Microsoft shareholders want Microsoft
to do harm. *If* they did, you would be correct. I don't think that they do.
DS
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