Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 17, 2004 06:32 AM
If there is a person who behavour have been very bad and insulting and he have made many people's lifes difficult, we could forgive him after some time - after all, he is human, with his weakness.
But as we tend to think (and I have to mostly agree with this image, however, things are not so simple anyway) that coorporations are not ethicaly liable and doesn't hold any kind of guilt, it is hard to question should Unisys be forgiven. Open source is that wonder that everyone could use it (if comply with licenses GPL/BSD/whatever) - even Microsoft, SCO or Sun.
So, it all boils down to - should emotions be mixed in all this? Customers usually punish companies with avoiding their products and services. Customers which are not affected by emotional bindings or are simply pragmatical will avoid to bring up emotions when case will be about simply doing business.
In overall, it is nothing new. And written about this problem or not, it won't change. IBM has acted badly in past but at least they somehow changed their point of view.
Will Unisys change? Will see. If they will change their coorporative style, then maybe.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 17, 2004 06:32 AMBut as we tend to think (and I have to mostly agree with this image, however, things are not so simple anyway) that coorporations are not ethicaly liable and doesn't hold any kind of guilt, it is hard to question should Unisys be forgiven. Open source is that wonder that everyone could use it (if comply with licenses GPL/BSD/whatever) - even Microsoft, SCO or Sun.
So, it all boils down to - should emotions be mixed in all this? Customers usually punish companies with avoiding their products and services. Customers which are not affected by emotional bindings or are simply pragmatical will avoid to bring up emotions when case will be about simply doing business.
In overall, it is nothing new. And written about this problem or not, it won't change. IBM has acted badly in past but at least they somehow changed their point of view.
Will Unisys change? Will see. If they will change their coorporative style, then maybe.
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