[IP] The Semantics Of Evil

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: GLIGOR1@aol.com
Date: January 28, 2006 2:59:00 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: For IP: The Semantics Of Evil

The Semantics of EvilCategories: Reporter's Notepad

Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt
The chiefs of Microsoft and Google traded barbs on a panel Friday  
afternoon. They were discussing Google's decision to enter China with  
a self-censored search function.

Speaking about the Google credo "Don't be evil" CEO Eric Schmidt  
explained how the company weighed the decision to self-censor in  
China for more than a year before making the decision.

"We even made an evil scale and decided it was more evil not to go in  
than to go in," Schmidt said.

On hearing that, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates muttered into his  
microphone: "That's do less evil."

In response, Schmidt said: "I don't want to get caught up in semantics."

Posted by Thomas Crampton on January 27, 2006 06:19 PM (Paris)

http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/?th&emc=th

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