Whether we like it or not, a company's business practices will always impact upon how its products are viewed.
Even though they are two separate considerations, in practice they are but two sides of the same coin, the company coin.
And whilst we can draw a theoretical and moral distinction between practice and product, it is impossible to keep that distinction separate for some.
And this is why companies like MacDonalds sometimes don the moral hat .. and they don't do this because of an improved morality, they do it because they would eventually lose money if they didn't ratchet up their moral code.
SP in a sense, are a victim of their own success because what started out as an IP protection strategy soon turned into a litigation blood bath that had SP being accused of taking the role of Goliath against the David of WDP.
Both parties in that dispute did things they regret, trust me, I know.
The fight went on for some years and cost a total of 10 million dollars for all parties (total litigation bill for SP, WDP and Dye).
Kinda ironic for SP if you think about it (they paid the major cost of that 10 mill) having to pay that much money to some slimebag attorney for protection .... I think I woulda preferred to get bashed up and kept my money
