i don't want to offend anyone, but some open source/privacy enthusiasts dislike google, but why?? google has made chromium, android, etc and most of the things they do are open source, and not only that, they also support creative commons media or public domain. i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you. i love google personally because of their commitment to open source software.

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[+] [S] -27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

google isn't amoral , i'm sorry but, what about the google employees who use debian?? or who use krita?? those people are changing the environment!! and the only case in which they can be seen as amoral, is when they are asked for data to the government.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Public companies are by definition amoral. They're beholden to their shareholders and virtually every decision they make is informed by this obligation. Morality generally only factors into their decision-making insofar as it affects PR and thus the bottom line.

    I don't mean to say that Google or any other company is immoral. I use amoral to simply mean that they operate independent of morality. No public company, no matter how much you may like them, is your friend at the end of the day.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm sure they have some Firefox users too. It's going to take a lot more than a few employees using Linux to convince me they wouldn't steal both of my kidneys and leave me in an icy hotel bathtub.

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