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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:

>Aside from the fact that I don't see much logic in your argument,
>and that therefore I don't see you as defending logic -- I don't
>really see where static logic is the issue.  The issue is that
>Microsoft (and others) is engaging in monopolistic practices,
>you are defending those practices, and I consider those practices
>evil.  Therefore, you are an agent of the devil.  Simple enough
>for your feeble mind to follow?

You prove my point so well.  Evil, what is evil, your definition of
evil?  I am now an agent of the devil????   Now that is a logical
statement.  Now I see why you have such a hard time seperating MS as a
business and MS products.  And in case you failed economics in
college, MS is not doing anything out of the ordinary for a large
company.  Is Ford evil, how about Proctor & Gamble?  Perhaps Mickey
Mouse is really Satan.  

And just in case you are interested in learning what you missed in
Econ 101, there has never been a successful monopoly in the US that
was not supported by the government (ala AT&T).  Even the oil
companies and the rail roads could not fully dominate their markets,
at best they captured 80% market share.  Where there are profits there
will be competition.  We can argue for days about the positives and
negatives of MS controlling such a large market share (for one thing
the "PC Revolution" might never have happened without MS), but the
fact remains that MS is only persuing a normal course of action for
any company of it's size.  If that is evil, then you sir are not a
capitalist, you are a socialist at best and probably a communist.
Which in and of itself is not a bad thing, but this is not a
discussion on political theories, it's a discussion of whether or not
people should go into the paranoid frenzy you are attempting to stir
up, over the RW in Win95.

>Fine.  Go ahead and use it.  I'll continue to try to save some
>souls, thank you.

Again as if this is an issue of such supreme importance that people's
souls are at stake.  Talk about paranoia.  Who are you to save souls?
The great Linux advocate?  


>>
>>Your views are so slanted to the left that I don't even think you
>>realize how scary you sound.

>To the left?  Bullshit.

Yes, to the left.  


>I hope I sound scary enough that some people out there will stop
>and consider what's really happening.

Now, if they actually did that, you might not have an audience.





William Rini <billman@centcon.com>                                     
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