Re: OT, but quite educational if you got the time to read it.

"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:1a75df45.0308212239.70e2dfb1_at_posting.google.com...

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> I am not talking software or even quality of software. Simply about
> the underhand, dirty, predatory, and often illegal, methods that these
> guys use to do business.
>

As companies get larger, the control their bosses have over what the rank and file does is less and less. It is quite possible for this to happen without the top echelons even being aware what's going on.

It's like the military of an invading or controlling power: you see the most incredible crimes being commited and the top brass is not even aware what's going on.

All manifestations of a general common malaise that is the misuse and abuse of too much power.

> Or do all the money (and power) smother one's conscience and
> principles?

I don't think money does. Power, yes. And the two do not necessarily always go hand in hand. Although in most cases they do.

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