Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 01:12:22 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Chris Browning" <brownicm@prokyon.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Microsoft bashers Message-ID: <003501c12f99$29fc8000$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <0108270947300X.03063@mercedes.local.domain>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Browning [mailto:brownicm@prokyon.com] >Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 6:48 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers > > >I don't often post here, either. > >Thank you, Ted. > >I thought I was the only one. I couldn't have said it better. Especially the >bit about the generation raised on voodoo economics. > Your welcome. It's no coincidence that the dot-com meltdown happened when it did. Once you relate the ages of the company principles involved and when they got their economic education it all becomes crystal clear. Bill Gates happens to be in that same generation, people forget that a lot too. What they also forget is that while Bill talks the same talk of "government hands off business" that was popular, in reality he is utterly dependent on governmental regulation. Hell the entire commercial software industry is founded on this idea of copyright law, and that took a series of global treaties to get squared away a few years ago. People only see the tip of the iceberg when they see the ruckus over the DMCA and the recording industry. There's been a lot of readjustment of business theory and operation lately. Some were readjusted by going bankrupt, others like Microsoft are being forcibly readjusted by the courts. Some, like Amazon, are desperately repudiating everything they have been saying in the past. The economists are still resisting adjusting their economic theories as a result of all this - but they are getting scared to death because the theories that seemed to work the last 20 years, such as the one that said that interest rates are the key economic adjustment knob of the economy, aren't working. And, as far as this being an inappropriate forum for political discussions - that's a laugh and a half. The entire BSD license itself is political. In fact the entire Free Software movement itself, whether it's GPL or BSD or Artistic or something else, is a political movement. If politics really had no business in the Free Software movement, then nobody would be using BSD or GPL or whatever, they would just put their code into the public domain. But, I guess I've triggered enough political arguments for the day. ;-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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