On Thu, 04 May 2000 18:20:22 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
wrote:
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> SH> then Bill Gates should have taken the same consideration he does with
> SH> anything else invented by Netscape. He should have designed his
> SH> operating system and browser to be incompatible with Java Script.
> SH> If Bill would have been smart enough to do that, then Java Script
> SH> would have never have taken off the ground.
> He HAS !!!!
> But the reactions forced him, to make it a bit more compatible ....
> IMHO Internet Exploder has still MANY quirks in JS support ...
> PS: I don't consider this behaviour smart, IMHO it's the worst thing
> anybody can do !!
> Or do you also think that it was great, that Windows had a 'bug' preventing
> Windows to run with DrDOS properly ??
> Or what do you say to the 'bug' that sends parts of your registry to a
> microsoft internet server ??
> IMHO this is NOT smart .... this is silly !!!!!!!
In the general sense of the word, you and I both know that this is not
smart, because in the general sense, being smart includes proper
consideration as to what conforms well with the ethical systems to which
most people subscribe. In other words, in the general sense, doing things
that are morally right is smart. Doing things that are morally wrong is
stupid. The exact context in which I used the word "smart" was in a
limited sense meaning "maintaining a consistency within the ethical
framework to which one subscribes", regardless of whether such a system is
in harmony with your values or mine, and regardless of whether we may
judge such a system as being morally acceptable or reprehensible. What
Bill Gate$ does is very smart according to the Hedonist ethical principles
to which he apparently subscribes. Just because you and I are not
Hedonists does not mean that Bill Gate$ is not "smart" in the context in
which I have used the term.
Of course we both can most certainly agree that Hedonism is silly.
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Sam Heywood
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