Google's Go

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote in message 
news:hjg5gp$i7p$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Bane wrote:
>> I naively and firmly believe, from my standpoint as a individual,
>> that any large corporation is evil. Google is no exception.
>
> I think there is some truth to that, in the same way as all governments,
> political parties, and other large organizations are evil.  Still, this
> doesn't mean that are governments or all large corporations are morally
> equivalent.  I'll take the evil of a secular liberal democracy over the
> evil of a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship any day.
>
> Google provides free products and services, uses unobtrusive
> advertising, promotes open standards, and contributes to open source
> projects.  Compared to other corporations of a similar size, they're
> practically saints.  Even if I don't care for their products, or for the
> direction in which they are trying to push the computer industry.
>
>

That is a good point. (FWIW, The only reason I feel compelled to "me too" 
this post is as a disclaimer for all my other Google-bashing posts here.)