Part of their survival is depending on consumer perception of their brand.<p>Microsoft sold us out to the NSA for a big fat cheque. Apple and Google have been fighting doing so every step of the way.<p>Companies that act like uncompetitive dicks should be shunned and regulated, especially when they do things like abuse the patent system.<p>There is a real world outside of the Realism bubble. A real world where people struggle for justice, and justice, even at the expense of wasting time talking on the internet, will certainly happen.