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From: "Alan Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Should a company be able to put code into their products to sabatoge
> their competitors?"
Gee... I don't know. In THEIR products? Wow... [Yes, of course, duh!]
> "Should they be able to threaten higher prices for products that only they
> produce to customers who deal with competitors?"
For products that only THEY produce? Gee... I don't know. [Yes, of course,
duh!]
> "Should they be able to give away products in order to destroy smaller
> competitors?"
Give away products! Now that's rotten! You mean like Linux and Netscape?
[Yes, anybody should be able to give away their products FOR ANY REASON,
duh!]
> Microsoft has done all this and more.
I still have to see the "unethical" part.
> The *ONLY* reason that Microsoft is where they are today is that they have
> special favors from the Government that allows them advantages over the
> average citizen. (As do all corporations.)
You mean like copyrights? I am not sure about this, but I claim that
copyrights are near their death anyway, so I guess we'll see.
> I was hoping that they were going to open up the Windows source so we
> could see just how much code they have ripped off from smaller competitors
> and the Open Source community.
Yeah, right. Open Source by force. That's a good propaganda for the Open
Source movement... [Look, ma, we haven't been able to threated Windows with
our Open-Source Linux, but we had to prove that we're better than them, so
we used the government.] Makes one wonder why the hell is he trying to
contribute to open-source...
> What most Liberitatians forget is that we do not have a Free Market in
> this country. We have an unholy collusion between Government and
> Business that benifits the big and powerful.
So? Fight the fucking government, the party with power in this alliance.
Between "survive in bed with the enemy" or "fight it and die" (and if not
even Microsoft is safe...), why the hell would businessmen be any more
saints than the rest of the population?
Mark
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