Yes, the tech giant Google recently dropped famous Dont Be Evil motto from its code of conduct.
The office environment to this day resembles a university campus.
In fact, the company struggled in the beginning to have a university atmosphere.
For years, this was a way of attracting talents and the most promising newly formed minds.
The strategy had a great relationship with the mantra.
The phrase worked so much that it was even interpreted as the slogan of Google.
Who does not want to work in a company with such a positive attitude?
But there was a problem.
What is evil?
It sounds simple but it is not.
Google itself had trouble defining evil within its culture.
There are many examples of situations that put the mantra against the wall.
Chrome is one of them (well, just one).
It was such a close relationship that many people thought that Google betrayed Mozilla.
From there you might see that often understanding about evil will depend on the affected side.
Maybe thats why Google started making the mantra worth protecting the interests of the user.
It was like this with Gmail, Maps and many other products.
The problem is that money has to come in.
Investors and shareholders want to be rewarded and will press.
Do the right thing
That does not mean that Google has decided to be bad.
Because of Android, cloud services and technology trends, Google had to approach traditional companies.
In a way, this does not make it very different from them.
The creation of Alphabet proves that the anti-corporativist stance was only a phase.
The consequence is in decisions that can be considered good or bad, everything depends on the context.
No less, the mantra has already been harshly criticized.
Basically, if they are within the law or can be defended instead of justified, Alphabet is okay.
So, what do you think about this?
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