On Jan 14, 1:29 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> ____/ Rex Ballard on Monday 14 January 2008 18:13 : \____
> > I understand. Microsoft wants to set up the equivalent of the USSR
> > merchant system. The state owns the store, stocks it with one brand
> > of each item, and since there is no need for competition, quality
> > suffers and prices as a percent of income, are kept artificially
> > high. If the bread has maggots and grub worms, who are you going to
> > complain to, the KGB?
> >> | [...]
> > Das Vedanya Komrade!
>
> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/12/13/soviet-microsoft-how-resista...
> Microsoft is communism. Somebody, call REDmond! Fast.
Actually, Microsoft is Fascism.
So was the USSR under Stalin and most of his successors. They used
economic socialism as a guise for state controlled economy.
Ironically, it was the United States and the war on poverty that was
more like socialism, with indexed taxation which collected more taxes
as a percentage of income, from people with high incomes, then
distributed those taxes in the form of subsidized housing, food
stamps, disability, and social security to abandoned single mothers,
the disabled, and the elderly.
Microsoft wants the same control over information that Stalin and the
KGB did. With that kind of control, you can destroy your enemies,
rewrite history, and eliminate rivals, through that control of
information.
Fortunately, Microsoft didn't get that control, due largely to UNIX,
Linux, and Open Source Software.
Rex
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