[120443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Dec 21 16:29:00 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <9DD9759A8EF14056A57FD43A4941BCE0@evo>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:28:10 -0500
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On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Corey Travioli wrote:
>> Another one from the "Evil Doer"
>> http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/
>> Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ...
> So what they are saying is because we as individuals are too cheep
> to give to charity they are giving in our stead to shame us. Yup, =
that is
> evil.
I know it's off-topic, but I'm impressed with the idea that a public =
corporation can spend 8 figures on something that has essentially $0 ROI =
and multiple people here can find bad things about it.
I'm shocked someone didn't say "but that's only 0.0000$WHATEVER percent =
of their profit!".
Google does many things which can be argued as evil, or not, but I would =
say this is very much not one of them.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
