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Originally Posted by Meloman
Agreed. But I think this can be said about any industry. The older I get the more I've realized that all humans are greedy animals period. We are all selfish and greedy, EVERYONE. It's simply that some of us are more greedy and selfish than others.
And the plain FACT is the greediest people with least morals and ethics make the most money period! Bill Gates stole the windows interface from Apple remember! If he would have though "hey apple is cool, I know steve personaly, i don't want to steal his ideas, lets be original"...Bill wouldn't have made Microsoft what it is today
If you make millions a year, you most likely are super agressive in bussiness and tend not to think of the consequences of your actions. "Make money today, deal with the repricusions when they come. Biz is biz. No one is friends in biz etc.". I've hard it all, and it's all true.
You want to be wealthy? Then you need to look at every company out there as you enemy, as your competition and feel from the inside out that you will do whatever it takes to beat them and not feel an ounce of guilt doing it.
Me personaly. If I started Microsfot, and if I happen to actually become friends with Steve Jobs...I would have NEVER been able to bring myself to flat out steal there interface. I would have tried to be original and not screw over my friends company...and that thinking would have let microsoft fall behind and apple win.
Me Personaly....I'm to damn nice....and therefore not "wealthy"...
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HELLO! Apple stole the GUI concepts from Xerox. And the manner in which they did it was way more unethical than Microsoft. Microsoft gave to the people and opened things up to them. Why do you think they became so successful? Then power went to their head and they started becoming evil. Now look what happened to them. Nobody wants to use their product or develop for it, but they feel they have to so they do. They force their customers to do things they don't want to because they don't have a choice. Same with Apple and developers. Why do you think nobody develops for the Mac? Just look at the iPhone SDK. They have to approve all software that gets written, and they take a huge cut, and there's no way to install software on the phone unless it's authorized first by Apple.
Now look at Google and it's don't be evil philosophy. Give customers what they want. Customer is first, make money is secondary to that. Everyone at Microsoft wanted to work for Google. Customers started using google because they trusted the results. You know the rest of the story.
Being unethical may work for a time but your advantage will quickly disappear. In fact being ethical is a competitive advantage. You will gain customers, employees will want to work for you, and partners will want to work with you.