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by alan_cx 4663 days ago
I think it is fair to assume that the guys who set up and run Google, Apple, MS, Yahoo, Facebook, etc, all started with great honorable intentions. Yes, even the hated Bill Gates. I chose to believe that is true. I believe these people were once us. Up till recently, its been a cat and mouse game of how they can get money from customers and how customers can mitigate that. This to me is fine, it is business and they all need financial structures to survive.

Of course what has happened now is that the jack boot of government has poisoned the well, and I cant believe there is no group of people more upset and angry than these pioneers. I bet if we could talk to any of them off record they would be as annoyed as "we" are, if not more. After all, its their baby being ruined, not ours.

I would add to that the corporate high finance thing as a poison too, but again, that's just money. It does soil the, er, purity of things, but doesn't not threaten freedom and liberty.

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Am I the only one who noticed that Apple didn't appear on the PRISM timeline list until after Steve Jobs died?