Crime ? Where's the crime for Intel, Apple, Sun, Adobe, Yahoo, Google. Genetech, Amgen. National Semiconductor. Xerox, Polaroid (notice won't find IBM on this list)
Even in the finanacial area - Vanguard, Fidelity, Charles Schwab.
Chuck did pretty poorly running a mutual fund in the 1970s.
I think you find some minor crimes associated with Oracle, namely promising vaporware to create FUD for rivals sale, and shipping unstable software products. Of course if aggrogance were a crime, Larry Ellison would be the poster child...
And what great crime was behind Hewlett-Packard ?
Was it when the COBOL programers were shot crossing the Stevens Creek Bridge during the strike ?
Compared with the mining companies, oil companies, and even the auto companies, most of the newer corporations are as pure as Snow White...and often as naive as Gomer Pyle. |
