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How Would You Like a Business to Behave?
professorhojo asks: "These days on the 'net, it seems like a company can go from being regarded as a Good Citizen to Evildoer in a matter of hours (witness Yahoo!'s willingness to time and time again reinterpret their own privacy policy as it suits them and their advertisers). I am at the helm of a new software company and I want us to stand apart from the rest with rock solid ethics, and policies that put the user first, that won't change or waver at the behest of advertising money. What I want to know from you is simple:what are the essential things a company has to promise and stick to? More importantly, what things have companies done, which have made you do a double-take and totally reconsider doing business with them? Why am I asking this? Well, I believe that in the future, the ethics of a company will greatly impact on their bottom line. What's good for our customers is good for us, and customers will be drawn to us BECAUSE of it." It sounds good, but reality has a tendency of getting in the way of good ethics. What suggestions would you make to keep difficult choices from compromising the ethics you would like your company to embody?
Whatever you see SCO do, do the exact opposite.
Pavlov wouldn't be so famous if he'd used a can opener instead of a bell.
From their page:
Internet Explorer works and you should find it usable for light use. However it still has some problems, and is not quite ready for production, full time use yet.
So now they're claiming that IE works as well in Crossover Office as it does under native Windows. Go figure.
Nasty Side Effects
Their product: Yes!!
Our product: No!!
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