It's a shame one cannot live on intellectual freedom
We live on money.
Also, you cannot wake up one morning, snap your fingers, and say with a big grin that you will be innovative. Real life is never so planned, never is mother nature. Only hubris and arrogance make such mindsets, and are usually told by those with the gift of a silver tongue to make people think they are visionaries. Looking at their histories, they're really quite vulgar (Google's terms of service giving them a royalty-free helping hand to everything customers put in, and will be able to profit it before the user does, and enough of these big companies have all engaged in enough unethical acts to make me go on by individual issues instead of glibly calling x, y, or z companies oh-so-perfect. They are not, and plenty of people would be here all day citing dozens of incidents of unethical acts and some would still choose to be cute little sycophants.
Still, since when does ethics lead to profits?
Anyway, IT managers love listening to the pied piper. Pity the piper won't take responsibility for what he's encouraging the "management" to do the moment something goes amiss... and it WILL...
