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Re:The slippery slope by adrianhoward on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:21AM (#6095019)
These companies are not silly, they understand the damage to their brand can be quantified as $x and that the benefit to their bottom line can be quantified as $xx.

Actually - they often are silly. It might be $x right now, but it turns into $10x later on as the consequences of that initial damage roll on and affect future interactions, recommendations, etc.

It's very easy to quantify the short-term gains being sneaky get you. It's much harder to quantify the longer term consequences.

Re:The slippery slope by luikore on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @08:55AM (#6095875)
By doing this they survived first and took place of some other honest companies. Still very large benefits.
Re:The slippery slope by jmagoon on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @10:29AM (#6096354)
Do you have examples of that? Because he has several examples of the opposite in his talk.