• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      This has been a very long-standing policy of theirs going back to when they were a little company in Seattle.

      But capitalism takes away any possible benevolence.

        • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          16 hours ago

          Perhaps that’s when it was officially codified, but it certainly has been at least an unofficial policy since way before then. I used to know people back in the day that would literally spend all day at Starbucks, sitting on their laptop using the wifi.