<story><title>The Web in 2050</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-web-in-2050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triangleman</author><text>&amp;gt;If you’re over 50 you might just remember the birth of Google, with their famous motto ‘Do No Evil’.&lt;p&gt;I love how people misremember this motto. The original slogan was &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t be evil&amp;quot; which is quite different and far more subjective to start with. Now they have updated it to &amp;quot;Do the right thing&amp;quot; and you can imagine how easy it is to dance around that.&lt;p&gt;But people seem to think Larry and Sergey were actually trying to be ethically meticulous. Nonsense--the slogan always had the subtle meaning of &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t be Microsoft-level evil&amp;quot; and it turns out that was not an easy hurdle to clear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>choxi</author><text>Facebook changed theirs in 2014 from &amp;quot;Move Fast and Break Things&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Move Fast with Stable Infrastructure&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s funny how they predictably become vaguer and less controversial.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Web in 2050</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-web-in-2050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triangleman</author><text>&amp;gt;If you’re over 50 you might just remember the birth of Google, with their famous motto ‘Do No Evil’.&lt;p&gt;I love how people misremember this motto. The original slogan was &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t be evil&amp;quot; which is quite different and far more subjective to start with. Now they have updated it to &amp;quot;Do the right thing&amp;quot; and you can imagine how easy it is to dance around that.&lt;p&gt;But people seem to think Larry and Sergey were actually trying to be ethically meticulous. Nonsense--the slogan always had the subtle meaning of &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t be Microsoft-level evil&amp;quot; and it turns out that was not an easy hurdle to clear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burkaman</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s similar to Obama&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t do stupid shit&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s not really supposed to mean anything concrete, it&amp;#x27;s just a good philosophy for approaching big decisions. I don&amp;#x27;t know if it works, but I understand the intent.</text></comment>