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From: David J. Brunell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The key concepts are force and fraud. Neither should be initiated from
one
> human entity to another. By "human entity" I mean person, corporation, or
> government. Why are force and fraud wrong? Because it is against man's
> na
>Tom Vogt wrote:
>>
>> but all this is hypothetical, since I'm not talking about industrial
>> power of 1900 or 1940, but of corporate power in 2000, and especially of
>> the years yet to come.
>
>Ok, so give us some documentation. How many people did Bill Gates & Co kill
>and what are the details
>If Microsoft really wanted to screw Apple, they'd simply discontinue
>Word/Office/etc. for MacOS.
They did do this. Apple had to beat them over the head with the QuickTime
source code theft to get them to continue making the software. In exchange
Apple agreed to let them have the source code t
At 04:47 PM 4/6/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>> > protection of patent monopolies,
>>
>> Individual inventors get patents, what extra rights do
>> corps get?
>
>patent portfolios. a long time ago, in a country not very far away (i.e.
>the US of A) patents were rare and only grant
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From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Economics doesn't recognise rights, that's politics. Don't confuse the
> two.
Just like Tom Vogt believes that being a Nazi prevents one from being a
socialist, you fail to understand that politics is a subset of economics,
the one where
David Honig wrote:
> > protection of patent monopolies,
>
> Individual inventors get patents, what extra rights do
> corps get?
patent portfolios. a long time ago, in a country not very far away (i.e.
the US of A) patents were rare and only granted after extensive
examination for really worthy i
David Honig wrote:
> >Microsoft broke every one of these. They have gone out of their way to
> >reduce the ability of competition to come to market.
>
> Do you think you have to buy your competition a billboard
> for 'equal access'? Must your salespeople
> refer customers to competitors if they
At 08:01 AM 4/5/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
>Microsoft broke every one of these. They have gone out of their way to
>reduce the ability of competition to come to market.
Do you think you have to buy your competition a billboard
for 'equal access'? Must your salespeople
refer customers to compet
