<story><title>Steve Jobs calls Google&apos;s &quot;Don&apos;t be evil&quot; mantra &quot;Bullshit&quot; and Adobe &quot;Lazy&quot;</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angelbob</author><text>It&apos;s important for Jobs to convince the rank-and-file at Apple that Google&apos;s &quot;Don&apos;t Be Evil&quot; is bullshit.  Right now it looks an awful lot like Apple is being closed and evil, while Google is being open and excellent with Android apps.&lt;p&gt;If that perception continues, Apple loses recruiting access to a lot of the best developers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Steve Jobs calls Google&apos;s &quot;Don&apos;t be evil&quot; mantra &quot;Bullshit&quot; and Adobe &quot;Lazy&quot;</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karzeem</author><text>&quot;Don&apos;t be evil&quot; clearly is bullshit to the extent that you can always rationalize an evil action, and three words aren&apos;t going to stop you from doing what you want.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, though, a mantra like that can help entrench a culture that makes it harder for &quot;evil&quot; ideas to find roots.&lt;p&gt;On balance, I&apos;m not sure a mantra makes a difference.  It&apos;s sort of dangerous when it becomes so entrenched that you start to think your actions are &lt;i&gt;by definition&lt;/i&gt; non-evil.  From time to time, we do see Google pulling out &quot;it&apos;s not illegal if the President does it&quot;-type rationalizations.</text></comment>