Trust people, not corporations

Posted Oct 17, 2006 4:37 UTC (Tue) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
In reply to: Trust people, not corporations by kevinbsmith
Parent article: Good-bye Mr. Noorda (Linux-Watch)

> And the idea of trusting people, not corporations doesn't really work
> either, as people run companies.

People have a much higher investment in having people continuing to trust them than do corporations; hence, a person's past good actions can be a reliable indicator of future good actions -- at least, far more so than a corporation.

> Don't trust corporations. And don't put too much trust in people

Yes. Perhaps I should have been saying that free software, to be effectively free, needs to be insulated as well as possible from the whims of any entity, real (person) or imaginary (corporation), so that the ideal in Linus's statement can hold true.