Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

[Keith Moore]

> > you missed it. Suppose you could not exchange in commerce with a person of
> > a given nationality, not because you did not have a language in common with
> > him or her, but because your system could not interpret his or her name.
> > That would mean that you could not spend money in that person's direction,
> > because you could not communicate with him or her.
> 
> And it means that person is at a disadvantage in your marketspace, and
> that it's not your problem.

why in the world do people think they can justify or not justify actions
based on whether something is an advantage/disadvantage in some 
"marketspace"?

Keith