[sideband]

I could never understand what Google wanted with Boston Dynamics. It seemed like a huge risk to their brand:

Google, 2001: "Don't be evil."

Google, 2013: "We make military robots."

[ttam]

Well, I could never understand why they're selling BD. Such cool research.

And now they're Alphabet, so the brand thing should've been ok.

[Jach]

The original slogan always had a convenient loophole. It's about not being evil, but not necessarily not doing evil. If you accept that something can do evil without being evil, it all works out to justify most anything.

[forgottenacc57]

Google never actually declared "don't be evil" as its slogan.

[sah2ed]

They did -- the founders included that phrase in their founder's letter [1] the year they went public in 2004.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312504...