[pgtruesdell]

Form over substance, as usual with large bureaucracies. Unfortunately, tech seems to view the biggest and most "successful" company as the model way to move forward, instead of throwing up the middle finger like they used to. It's sad to see the transformation of Silicon Valley to a pseudo-government style group of mega-conglomerates. The next batch of real innovators will not be from the Valley or be from Valley culture.

[jstewartmobile]

Yep. Used to be, the dream was to beat Bill Gates. Now the dream is to get bought by Facebook.

[omouse]

The dream was to make your own rules (which includes a ferrari, a private office and all sorts of perks). Getting bought by Google, Facebook, etc. is the new way of getting "fuck you" money.

[LordKano]

I worked as a programmer for a promotional marketing company and their modus operandi was to copy everything they could from their biggest competitor.

Eventually, it even got so bad that we were instructed to copy, word for word, certain disclosures from the competitor's web site.

The big competitor is still the big competitor and my former employer is still doing OK but they'll never catch or pass anyone by copying what they're doing.