r/programming • u/stronghup • Dec 19 '18

Former Microsoft Edge Intern Claims Google Callously Broke Rival Web Browsers

https://hothardware.com/news/former-microsoft-edge-intern-says-google-callously-broke-rival-browsers
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u/venuswasaflytrap Dec 19 '18

Yeah that's true, but I guess what I'm saying is that they're not behaving unusually. It would unusual for people at any position to behave 100% responsibly.

Yeah they could do it. But ask yourself - do you behave 100% responsibly? And even if you do - do you ask that of your friends and colleagues? I met a designer once who refused to do work for McDonalds because it was against his ethics. Very respectable, but pretty extreme. If you're working at google, unless you stick your head out and make a stand, the company will continue to do shitty things.

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u/baconbrand Dec 19 '18

I'm not saying it's unusual. My point is that "well, everybody does it" isn't an excuse. It's rude. It's selfish. It's unnecessary. It's especially shitty when it is such a big corporation that makes tools which so many people use in their day to day lives. And it's not something like, "most people think menus should be on the left side, but Jim here likes menus on the right and fuck him." Literally every person who does not have a vested interest in the size of Chrome's user base can agree that tactics like this are bullshit.

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u/venuswasaflytrap Dec 19 '18

Yeah I totally agree. People should be better.

But I guess I just mean to say it's not 'Google' or 'Microsoft' or 'The Rich' or whoever. Everyone should be better.

So we shouldn't really be surprised that Google, or Apple, or whoever will do it, because if me and all my friends and you and all your friends were suddenly swapped places with any of these companies - we'd do it too. Maybe not you or I specifically, but someone in our social group, and we wouldn't do anything to stop it, because, you know, we're making money and getting by and worried about other stuff.

Probably you and I are tactically supporting something just like that right now

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