You may not remember this, but Google used to be cool.
"Don't be evil", and all that. There was a lot of hope - when Microsoft was still the bad guys. Working at Google was the dream - they made movies about that.
Nowadays we all feel stupid, obviously.
Right up to deleting "Don't be evil". Literally taking it out. The nerve.
Alphabet is Google's parent company and did not exist when "Don't be evil" was put at the top of Googles preamble.
Functionally, they took it out. Both by not using it in the new parent company, and deleting it out of the preamble of Google itself.
Yeah okay it still occurs somewhere.
But "Do the right thing" as substitute to "Don't be evil" has clear implications except if you are terribly naive.
You may not remember this, but Google used to be cool. "Don't be evil", and all that. There was a lot of hope - when Microsoft was still the bad guys. Working at Google was the dream - they made movies about that.
Nowadays we all feel stupid, obviously. Right up to deleting "Don't be evil". Literally taking it out. The nerve.