all their decisions are based on sales. like other corporations especially those going for IPO. thats absolutely true. Any messaging outbound will be for that purpose mostly from a business perspective, regardless of what opinions or ideals the involved persons hold personally. Its good to keep that in mind indeed when looking at these things. People arent evil, but business incentives can definitely paint such a picture or otherwise work out suboptimally in the eyes of outsiders not privy to internal business reasoning.
reply> all their decisions are based on sales
replyThat’s the edgy cynical thing, and too reductive to be meaningful. For one thing, it assumes perfect knowledge of how a decision will impact sales, which I assure you is not remotely the case.
Agreed on incentives, but it’s not binary. I’ve been involved in plenty of decisions in multiple Fortune 500’s where the deciding factors were taste, wanting or not wanting to work with a particular partner, etc.
I guess I’m saying that seeing corporate behavior as perfectly informed, single-goal-optimized, and deterministic is way oversimplifying. Often, not always.
It's an optimal first order approximation.
replyAnything anyone with a capital-C in their job title says in public should be assumed to be marketing material.
worked at fortune 500 companies and biggest cyber vendors too. Notnin sales or c/d level ofcourse.(engineer)
I am a cynic yes but have also seen that its largely true in many cases where you'd hope ethics would win the argument (and does not).
replystill, you are right its cynical, the world is not black and white afterall :)
I know that the enterprise I work for is getting really worried about security. I've been told to fix a lot of CVEs that previously we just ignored because realistically the attack isn't possible since the firewall doesn't allow the attack vector (if you already have root what does it matter if this exists)
replyWhy would I, as an enterprise customer, care about what queries they answered for anybody else?
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