It's difficult to describe the world in the pre-social media age. There was a time when Google was just a cool software company building cool things, and the don't be evil motto was probably genuine.
Software used to be an thing that you would buy and use if you needed it. It came on a disk. It wasn't this ever pervasive network of always on tools living in our homes and devices working to cultivate the ultimate consumer unit
Unlike how corporations behave
But why involve them at all? Why assume they are even acting in good faith?
At least we arrived at the correct outcome
You comfortable with how it's being enforced currently?
Unlike trustworthy corporations
I think k you are missing the pointy guy. The Germans though they couldn't be defeated either.
I mean, you probably shouldn't. Donate the money yourself or trough charities or in countless other ways.
They literally farm these tax credits from customers to pad their bottom line. You can bet that they are also playing tax and accounting games with the "donations" they make and who they make them to, likely further enriching a lot of their pals before the poor see a dime of it.
You're just giving them free tax credits
What criteria decided those books? It must be a relatively small number of all books
Uh, this is the second neighbour/ally/trilateral trade partner who's sovereignty he's threatened
The legitimate use case for noncompetes is so tiny compared to the blanket clauses these corporation's want for everyone. It's nonsense