Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Dr

[ducks]

https://gizmodo.com/google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-mave-1826488620

[rmt]

IMHO, these Google employees and early Google decision makers are too idealistic. In the past, when Google had big advantage, they wasted that time doing "pie in the sky" projects (trying to improve life). Unlike Amazon, which forwent those "ideas" and established an un-paralleled infrastructure (at a loss). Do these Google employees think that it's better for Russia or China to develop these capabilities first - rather than the USA. And when the US has lost its technological superiority, where will it/they be? Ideals are great but get real - if Google doesn't do it, Amazon will and when Amazon has the corner on virtually every product area, where will that leave those Google employees when everyone does one-stop shopping at Amazon and Google doesn't have any customers to sell its ads to - talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

[ElNono]

IMHO, these Google employees and early Google decision makers are too idealistic. In the past, when Google had big advantage, they wasted that time doing "pie in the sky" projects (trying to improve life). Unlike Amazon, which forwent those "ideas" and established an un-paralleled infrastructure (at a loss). Do these Google employees think that it's better for Russia or China to develop these capabilities first - rather than the USA. And when the US has lost its technological superiority, where will it/they be? Ideals are great but get real - if Google doesn't do it, Amazon will and when Amazon has the corner on virtually every product area, where will that leave those Google employees when everyone does one-stop shopping at Amazon and Google doesn't have any customers to sell its ads to - talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

Don't worry, they're just going to spin off a unit (likely done already) as a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella and keep going at it, but in complete secrecy. At the end of the day, what's sad is that they lied to their own employees, so the reaction is unsurprising.

It's obvious that the email leaks taints the brand, especially the once-required "don't be evil" motto. So after some PR damage control, they'll move on.

[boutons_deux]

the once-required "don't be evil" motto

Why Google Was Smart To Drop Its “Don’t Be Evil” Motto (https://www.fastcompany.com/3056389/why-google-was-smart-to-drop-its-dont-be-evil-motto)

Simply asking companies to avoid unethical behavior sets the bar too low, all but ensuring they’ll fail.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3056389/why-google-was-smart-to-drop-its-dont-be-evil-motto

Capitalism has no ethics or morals. If it's legal (and sometimes not legal), Capital will do it to obtain (more) Capital.

Anybody find ethics or morals required in any BigCorp's articles of incorporation?