[ExI] Don't be evil

[Giulio Prisco]

I am not sure the decision was motivated by compassionate feelings
alone. Perhaps free and enthusiastic coverage and advertising on the
Western press had a part;-)

The Chinese market will be important for Google someday, but not yet.
With this move, they win a lot of karma points in their real markets,
and will worry about China later.

Note: I like Google _very_ much. But what I am thinking today, is that
perhaps this everything-is-free Internet culture can only benefit rich
multinationals like Google and create powerful monopolies. Small
companies with innovative products cannot afford to make everything
free.

2010/3/23 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> I know it's very unfashionable to say anything good about a very large
> corporation, but I think Google's decision to withdraw from the very large
> Chinese market because they no longer felt comfortable with the oppressive
> censorship that government imposed is commendable and is absolutely
> compatible with their famous motto.
> Economically it might be foolish but morally it is the right thing to do.
> Capitalism doesn't always do the right thing but it did this time.
> Capitalists be proud!
>  John K Clark
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