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by moreorless 5238 days ago
There is no ill goodwill in his assessment. There is no way around it. Path is just like anything other company. They are in business to make money. No different than Google. No different than Facebook. No different than Apple. How they go about making money and the moral choices they make vary greatly. Whether they genuinely thought what they did was wrong or not doesn't make it right. They perfectly well knew what they were doing. Just like management at Sanlu knew what they were doing when they added melamine to the baby milk formula. The decisions were made with the bottom line in mind.