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Torn on Feb 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

... I wonder if there's an MBA / capitalism version of this, centering around short-term profit at the expense of everything else.

eropple on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

Jumping at short-term profit over the people who trusted you is malice, in my book. Profit-uber-alles is not some thing that appears out of the ether--somebody has to do it.

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