On Monday 29 December 2008 11:15, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Monday 29 Dec 2008 10:55:42 am jtd wrote:
companies exist to make money - not to comply with ethics.
Companies exist to provide a service to society. In the process they make money.
they exist to make money - they make it by providing a service to society. Some companies realise that it is good business to be ethical - others dont.
That looks like a glass half empty.
But people invest in companies to make money
- not to promote ethics.
It's a foolish investor who invests in an unethical company. His money is going to diminish quickly - Satyam anyone?.
And here we are talking of ethics, not illegality. In the case of M$ it's plain old breaking the law, over and over ad nauseum. Ethical behaviour in the case of M$ would be like many of their products.