Morality, Honesty and Legality

[Roger Eller]

EULAs aside, I wonder what stand Apple takes on higher-level ethics and
morality, looking at themselves as an entity capable of making a
significant difference in this world.

In this article, there could be a genuine opportunity for Apple to apply
some of massive resources toward curing at least one type of cancer (the
one that killed Steve Jobs):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9508895/A-virus-that-kills-cancer-the-cure-thats-waiting-in-the-coldc.html

In this article, they seem to be more focused on selling iPads to the
medical industry under the guise of helping find a cure:
http://www.cultofmac.com/147937/could-apple-help-cure-cancer-in-corporate-america/

I'm sure they give large sums of money to some very good causes, but why
not go all out and make a difference by really changing the world instead
of paying all those lawyers to take down Samsung?  Ok, this one is
definitely over the top, and also naive, but wouldn't it be a wonderful
achievement for a company of such humble beginnings?

~Roger


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>
>  Richard, where I would differ is in the view that there are two choices:
>>  use
>> and agree, or use something else.  It may be that there are sound ethical
>> reasons for simply not accepting the wishes of the creator or owner.
>>
>
> I suppose there are a great many ways to view this, and no doubt as this
> long thread gets longer we'll hear even more of them.
>
> For myself, when a vendor puts in writing that they don't want me as a
> customer, I'm happy to return the favor and just go about my business with
> a vendor who does want me.
>
>
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