____/ [H]omer on Friday 14 March 2008 16:54 : \____
> Rick wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:03:56 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:37:46 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>> In article <15lafxzih6811$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tattoo Vampire
>>>> <sitting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>>> They are interested in a demo. Naturally I can't provide this
>>>>> in my capacity as an ERA employee, but there's nothing that
>>>>> says I can't do it as part of my side business. :-)
>>>>
>>>> How about ethics? Helping your employer's competitor, even as
>>>> part of a side business, sounds questionable.
>
> Good to see you agree that deploying Linux is "helping".
>
> As for ethics ... is cooperation "unethical", Smith?
>
>>> Sounds like a good way to get fired or sued. Typical Linux
>>> advocate.
>
> Well I'm sure the spirit of cooperation would get one fired from a
> monopolist's stronghold like Microsoft; that's sounds like a fairly
> consistent MO for the Vole. Fortunately not every company in the world
> operates like the thugs and gangsters at Microsoft.
>
>> Really? Typical? And what else did you say was typical? Murderers?
>> Yes, I think that was it.
>>
>> Nice line of bigotry you've got going there.
>
> But didn't you know, "Fscking killing" everyone is the only proper way
> to conduct "bizniz"?
>
> The Microsoft Mindset is palpably corrupt.
Who would ever stop them? The regulators might be equally corrupt. Monkey see,
monkey do. How can they be hypocritical?
That's where outside intervention comes into play. Don't you find it
fascinating that the US does merely nothing to restrain Microsoft, a
US-based 'company', while courts from China and Europe have to pull Microsoft
or enter the US merely to serve justice?
Lessig (earlier today):
Larry Lessig: Time to reject corporate influence on Washington
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| Iconic Internet law professor Larry Lessig may have cast off plans for a
| congressional bid of his own, but he still wants to turn the political
| process as we know it upside down.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9899828-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
You know, in a way, Lessig inspires many people (including myself) to consider
quitting the comparably small problems and starting to study the behaviour of
the most corrupt people who enable this to happen. It doesn't only have a
negative effect in technology, but also on the environment, economics, even
people's life and death (also overseas... just ask Iraqi civilians or families
of dead troops who are led to believe (by Faux et al) that there is 'war'...
and WoMD... oh! and oil).
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