[roc]

I don't think evil is related to size or innovation; it's just selective reporting.

E.g. People only care about whether a company is evil if it creates products and services they want to use, or whether the company is so massive that it can't be avoided.

Small companies can't, and companies with crappy products don't, inflict their evil upon you -- so no-one notes whether they're evil or not, skewing results.

It could well be (and I believe it to be the case) that every company is essentially 'evil', but that tendency can only be exposed when they attain the requisite leverage to push what they want, as a priority, onto the market.

[unalone]

Perhaps it's not evil so much as it is difficulty in making decisions? Everybody has good intentions, and most people fuck them up at some point or other. The difference is that when large companies fuck up, it hurts more than when individuals do, and it's more noticeable.