Oh My God! Apple Killed ThinkSecret! Those Bastards!

Theory: Steve Jobs is overreaching to the point of evil, but he's also smart enough to hire hackers who are more than yes-men, and they push back when he wants to do something too bad.

I suppose this is ultimately what keeps Google honest too. If so, then being good and hiring smart hackers are inseparable; and that means as companies increasingly can't win without smart hackers, they'll have to become increasingly good.

(By "become" here I mean in the sense that populations become a certain way through evolution. I'm not proposing any given company will get nicer. Just that good companies will increasingly triumph over evil ones.)

I hate it when Robert Scoble is right, but Apple really needs to open up with respect to things like blogging.

Channel 9 made Microsoft, of all companies, feel a lot more human and a lot less evil.

I realize this is incompatible with the Mac cult and "one more thing" Stevenote surprises.