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Re:Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on... by Conan_Kudo on Thursday July 15, 2021 @05:49AM (#27842984)
Well, the flip-side of that is that if ethical people don't work for Oracle, then Oracle never changes.

Companies act on the will of the people within them, and as the people change, so do they.

Re:Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on... by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday July 15, 2021 @05:57AM (#27843035)
Companies are empires, and empires don't change because an underling thinks they should.

Empires change because they're overrun from outside, or - vanishingly rarely, on moral issues - because the emperor decrees it and/or is replaced.

Amazon may go in a different direction with Bezos gone. It almost certainly won't, but there's always a tiny sliver of potential when the big jobs change.

The political opinions of an Ln are irrelevant. Not even L10s get to set moral policy.

Re:Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on... by nemetroid on Thursday July 15, 2021 @06:01AM (#27843055)
Companies act on the will of shareholders.
Re:Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on... by vsnf on Thursday July 15, 2021 @06:29AM (#27843230)
So what is about Oracle's shareholders that make it, or any company, more or less ethical, or in Oracle's case, litigious?