🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:06:58 -0500, Jerry Lynn Kreps
<jlkreps@navix.net> wrote:

>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
>
>You're right, Les.  
>It is always interesting to note how those on the left want to spare
>other from the hurts of failure, so they always outlaw opportunities
>when they get into power.  The moral self-righteousness of the
>nanny-staters amaze me.  It is truely a religion that worships the
>man-god elitists.

well said.  Atlas Shrugged is required reading for this discussion.