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PwC Auditors Arrested In Satyam Fraud Inquiry
theodp writes "Indian police arrested two employees from the affiliate of PricewaterhouseCoopers who audited Satyam Computer Services, the IT outsourcing giant at the center of the nation's largest fraud inquiry. The move comes after Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju said he had fabricated $1 billion of assets and confessed to making up more than 10,000 employees to siphon money from the software company. State Farm Insurance has severed its ties with Satyam, citing uncertainty about the company's future as 'the only factor responsible for the termination of the contract,' which will reportedly affect at least 400 on-site Satyam employees. Other customers, including GE, are standing by Satyam, one of the top recipients of H-1B and L visas (so much for those $500 Fraud Prevention and Detection fees!)."
What's wrong with this analogy?
Lets see - FOSS developers are doing something totally legal and ethical that benefits many other people, and even offers some benefits to the laid off Microsoft employee if he or she can still afford to use a computer. Hate them if you must, but it's like being a buggy whip maker who hates the inventors of that new-fangled horseless carriage.
Illegal downloaders inflict damage to a company's bottom line in at least some cases, but laid off employees are there because of that, plus lots of perfectly legal actions, (i.e. boycotts, spending your entertainment dollars on something else besides music, or your being too broke to have descressionary spending anymore). A big chunk of it is the industry's own choice. Illegal downloading by itself hasn't done nearly all the damage, and it's a least reasonable to claim that the industry's own mistakes were big enough to screw their own people without illegal downloading having any impact at all. Hate the downloaders if you must, but you'll do better in the long run if you at least apportion blame fairly, and don't let your former management pass the buck for its own share of the causes. (So sure, go ahead and hate, but don't hate blindly).
For this mess, 100% of the pain coming back is the consequences of these person's own unethical choices, and any hatred they feel is like the hatred of a caught criminal for the witnesses who fingered him. The rest of us either don't care or actively wish they'd catch a bullet. If you're one of their employees, and genuinely didn't know your management were viciously treasonous bastards, sorry.
Perspective sure is an interesting thing. I'm sure there's some guy on death row right now who killed a whole family because he wanted money for his fix, and from his perspective, there's no difference between him and Jesus walking to the cross, but for the rest of us, there is.
Who is John Cabal?