Another quote from the article:

Evil begets stupidity.
 
An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work. And it's not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren't the ones that win... the reason Google embraced "Don't be evil" so eagerly was not so much to impress the outside world as to inoculate themselves against arrogance.

BTW, this is the same Paul Graham of YCombinator fame.

 saidi

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
http://paulgraham.com/apple.html

Is the future of handheld devices one locked down by Apple? It's a worrying prospect. It would be a bummer to have another grim monoculture like we had in the 1990s. In 1995, writing software for end users was effectively identical with writing Windows applications. Our horror at that prospect was the single biggest thing that drove us to start building web apps.

Saidi