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by saghm 479 days ago
It's certainly a bit cynical to view for-profit companies as being solely profit motivated, but I don't think it's _that_ cynical. To me, it almost seems a bit naive to assume that a company like Google would be doing something for purely altruistic motives in the absence of any evidence one way or another. I'm not a subscriber to Friedman's view that corporations are _required_ to maximize profits for their shareholders, but I do think that they all inevitably end up there in the absence of mitigating factors.
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Google's goal is to make good products. That will enable making money. A positive externality of trying to create a good product is creating technologies such as fuchsia. I don't think there is more to it beyond that. If it's more complicated than that, that would probably be news to most people working on Fuchsia.