🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm just curious, but how many of the people debating about capitalism
and business have actually risked their own money and started a
business, and if so, have you succeeded (i.e., able to feed your
family, give them a decent place to live, clothes and a proper
education, and pay the bills?)



On 3 Oct 1998 17:37:17 -0500, les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:

>In article <slrn71aesl.14i.jedi@dementia.mishnet>,
> <jedi@dementia.mishnet> wrote:
>
>>>>	Capitalism fails for most people. That's a simple fact.
>>>
>>>Huh?  I guess that depends on whether or not the stock market continues to
>>>crash.  There have been a lot of businesses making a lot of money for
>>
>>	I was talking about entrepenuers. Have you seen the statistics
>>	on new business failure rates? An OpenSource orientation doesn't
>>	add much more in terms of significant risk than what's already 
>>	there.
>
>Your reasoning is precisely backwards.  If there is a high change of
>failure at best, you must avoid every mistake to succeed.  Knowingly
>limiting your product line to things where literally everyone can
>supply an identical product at less than your price sounds like a
>mistake to me. (This is a GPL issue, not necessarily OpenSource).
>
>  Les Mikesell
>    les@mcs.com