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Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most?

Posted by BeauHD on from the with-respect-to dept.

dryriver writes: On Slashdot, we often discuss the missteps and non consumer-friendly behavior of various tech companies. This company forced people into a subscription payment model. That tech company doesn't respect people's privacy. Yet another tech company failed to fix a dangerous exploit quickly, protect people's cloud data properly, or innovate and improve where innovation and improvement was badly needed.

Here's a question to the contrary: Of all the tech companies you know well and follow -- small, medium, or large -- which are the ones that you respect the most, and why? Which are the companies that still -- or newly -- create great tech in a landscape dotted with profiteers? Also, what is your personal criteria for judging whether a tech company is "good," "neutral," or "bad?"

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  1. None... by blahplusplus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... since they are all in bed with the entertainment industry and are hell bent on a war against computing and people owning and controlling their own software.

    The coming war on General computing and software freedom

    1. Re:None... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Interesting

      What about someone like Red Hat?

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  2. Mozilla by RickRussellTX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, the Mr. Robot promotion was a huge mistake, and they've finally admitted that and pledged to do better.

    But I think that mistake only garnered so much attention because Mozilla has been so transparent and aggressive in protecting privacy and advancing the state of browser technology. If somebody like Goog or MSFT pulled that crap, nobody would blink an eye.

  3. Easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    GNU

  4. SpaceX by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They are the only ones that are going to get us off this rock stuck in a gravity well.

  5. DuckDuckGo by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to respect Google but becoming a public company turned them evil just like every company that goes public. Now DuckDuckGo has come along and they are great because they respect your privacy and don't collect data on people. They are small with a mere 40-some employees which is enough to keep the site going and few enough for them to pay without exploiting users. If that wasn't enough, all their stuff is open source and on github.

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  6. Easy questiom, Red Hat by the_pouar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're probably the most successful open source company, and their tech is pretty good too.

  7. Re:Whoever by Solandri · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As noble as committing corporate seppuku to uphold a principle may be, it means you're no longer around to uphold that principle anymore. You can't instill it upon others, you deprive the side advocating that principle a voice, and your example soon fades from memory. A more noble course of action would've been actively and publicly fighting the Feds' attempts to get them to release secure emails.

    As General Patton put it, "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country."

  8. Tesla by mark-t · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While perhaps more of a car manufacturer than tech company, I'd say that they still qualify at least partially as the latter.

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  9. Define tech by MpVpRb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I despise Apple. I consider them fashion that uses tech, rather than tech
    Intel is tech, and they have accomplished great things. Of course, they are also stuck with a really bad problem at the moment
    Atmel and Microchip make useful, but un-glamorous, embedded processors. Their merger has caused us(embedded system programmers) a bit of pain, but on balance, they deserve respect
    Fairchild, NXP, Panasonic, AVX, Kemet, Bourns, Vishay and others make the essential tiny bits.. resistors, capacitors, small logic that the rest of the tech world couldn't live without
    At one time, Sony was amazing, then they shifted their focus from tech to fashion
    LG and Samsung deserve a lot of respect

    Possibly my favorite is Texas Instruments

  10. Who Makes raspberry pi's? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've never heard anything bad, only good.

  11. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Interesting

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  12. Remember when most of us would've said Google? by AbRASiON · · Score: 3, Interesting

    HAHAHAHAHAA!
    HAHAHAH!

    Oh boy :(

    My, how things have changed. Honestly I think I like Microsoft more than Google now.

  13. Easy - Intel by GerryGilmore · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Fuck all of you haters jerking off over Meltdown and how that shows how evil Intel is...Without Intel, our entire industry would not exist as it is. Yes, Microsoft also played their huge part, but let us never forget the tech revolution that they spawned, leading us from 4.77MHz processors to 4.7GHz processors in a super-short timeframe at a reduced price-performance ratio that is unmatched in history. Credit where it's due, mofos!!