Most companies? the secret to every great fortune is not a 'forgotten crime', de Balzac's opinion notwithstanding.
If we're looking for a justification for a company's under-performance, the solution is not to look for excuses, the solution is to reflect honestly and question our existing ideas and approaches. Otherwise we're no different than couch-potatoes dismissing all athletes as "dopers", while drawn ourselves in a self-righteous bag of Doritos and a liter of coke.
And lest you think I am being a hypocrite and taking the moral high-ground in an appeal to cheap applause and upvotes; let me say that I am all in favor of any ruthless business tactic that furthers your market dominance. Undercut the competition, corner them, etc. But get there, first, through quality and great service. Not by shutting down their mail servers. Go through their garbage, but don't phish their accounts. Point out their shortcomings to the public, but don't lawyer up and sue them out of existence or appeal to xenophobia or use a government crutch to ban them from the market. etc.
There is a difference between war and genocide; neither is excusable, but one of them appeals to my own warped sense of chivalry and machismo, while the other fills me with disgust.
Of course, all of this is just my opinion, and is entitled neither to a response nor agreement.
the reason most successful companies resorted to unethical things early on, is because they had no resources to play "fair". Once you are actually making money you can afford to take the high road.
yes hacking mail servers is going too far, but scraping and spamming ends up being a necessity.
If we're looking for a justification for a company's under-performance, the solution is not to look for excuses, the solution is to reflect honestly and question our existing ideas and approaches. Otherwise we're no different than couch-potatoes dismissing all athletes as "dopers", while drawn ourselves in a self-righteous bag of Doritos and a liter of coke.
And lest you think I am being a hypocrite and taking the moral high-ground in an appeal to cheap applause and upvotes; let me say that I am all in favor of any ruthless business tactic that furthers your market dominance. Undercut the competition, corner them, etc. But get there, first, through quality and great service. Not by shutting down their mail servers. Go through their garbage, but don't phish their accounts. Point out their shortcomings to the public, but don't lawyer up and sue them out of existence or appeal to xenophobia or use a government crutch to ban them from the market. etc.
There is a difference between war and genocide; neither is excusable, but one of them appeals to my own warped sense of chivalry and machismo, while the other fills me with disgust.
Of course, all of this is just my opinion, and is entitled neither to a response nor agreement.