[mirkules]

Having employees be free of any consequences of what they say on the web (or otherwise) is a bad idea. Do you want your employees telling your customers or competitors what your next product feature is?

Uncontrolled PR is an all around bad idea, and it's why many companies explicitly forbid saying anything about the company.

[geon]

Obviously, keeping company secrests is important. That goes without saying. But that wasn't what happened, was it? An employee expressed his personal prefeerence for a technology that may, or may not be part of the netx gen consoles. (And everyone have been anticipatin this for years anyway.)

[yuhong]

Well, I have said before about secrecy that "neither extreme is a good idea": http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1185168...