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Re:Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A by stephen_g on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:48AM (#4505361)
> I'm not sure if I can bring myself to support undoubtedly one of the most unethical companies in the world.

Really? I wish Apple was one of the most unethical companies in the world, because if suing some companies over patents was grounds for that, then the world would seriously be a much better place.

In the real world, I probably wouldn't rate Apple in the top thousand unethical companies... Real unethical companies are ones like James Hardie [1], which manufactured building materials from asbestos that gave thousands of people mesothelioma, despite knowing the health effects for about 10 years.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hardie

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Re:Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A by richworks on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @12:45PM (#4506420)
Being unethical or not is based on moral values and Apple did breach the moral code of conduct in their recent lawsuits by acting vigorously bullish but they did nothing wrong(at least not legally). But what James Hardie did was borderline illegal so they are two different things.
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Re:Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A by talmand on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @10:16AM (#4505524)
The difference I would toss out there is that what Hardie did was not unethical, it was criminal.
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