Re:Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from imag...
by acdha on Thursday July 14, 2016 @01:11PM
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> Dropbox management is obligated by law to act in the best interests of their shareholders, i.e. to make them as much profit as possible.
Can you cite the law which you believe makes that obligation?
The reason you can't is because it's not actually a legal requirement and the reason is obvious: it's hard to say what the best interest is over all but the shortest time frame:
Dropbox's management might argue that they benefit more from open-source than they're giving away, that this kind of favorable attention will help them hire the top engineers who make far larger contributions to their bottom-line, that the pricing models are complex enough that this just doesn't matter very much, etc. Absent evidence that they're acting in bad faith, it's almost impossible to say in advance whether those arguments are right or wrong.
Can you cite the law which you believe makes that obligation?
The reason you can't is because it's not actually a legal requirement and the reason is obvious: it's hard to say what the best interest is over all but the shortest time frame:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
Dropbox's management might argue that they benefit more from open-source than they're giving away, that this kind of favorable attention will help them hire the top engineers who make far larger contributions to their bottom-line, that the pricing models are complex enough that this just doesn't matter very much, etc. Absent evidence that they're acting in bad faith, it's almost impossible to say in advance whether those arguments are right or wrong.