I read something on the Internets today that tickled my bias. Always get the warm & fuzzies when that happens.
Here are the pertinent two quotes (on why Yahoo failed):
In the software business, you can’t afford not to have a hacker-centric culture.
and…
So which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture?… The answer is: any company that needs to have good software.
So what if every company needs to have good software?
Not Unreasonable 