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All businesses should primary focus on making money. That's what businesses do.

If you'd like to draw attention to Microsoft's illegal behavavior in the market, you have to explicitly state it, a dollar sign won't be enough for most people, who think you might simply be poor and envious.



I strongly disagree that "businesses should primarily focus on making money." They should focus on solving problems or making great products. The money follows. There's a word for "primarily focusing on making money": greed. I don't think we want more greedy companies around...


I strong agree about the greed, but would like to add one more entry to what their primary focus should be on: the customer.


In what order should a company consider customers, employees, and shareholders?


that order sounds pretty good to me. also, "employees" ought to be a subset of "shareholders", simplifying the prioritization a bit.


You haven't provided any justification for why focusing on making money is greedy.

I would, however content that a company which is focusing on something other than making money for its shareholders is dishonest, as that is what is expected of a for-profit business.




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