Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 05:56:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: fpawlak@execpc.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, kline@tera.tera.com, freebsd@atipa.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <199805211256.FAA02436@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <21093.895690380@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 20, 98 11:53:00 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > FWIW, I don't believe in anti-trust laws either. If it's in mankind's > nature to create and support robber barons in their pillaging then > mankind deserves whatever it gets, period. This whole legal system > for regulating our own worst impulses has always struck me as > equivalent to hitting oneself repeatedly with a hammer and then > pointing to the first-aid kit every time someone comes up and asks you > what you're doing about this weird compulsion you have to harm > yourself. It's not solving the fundamental problem and it's not going > to get any closer to solving the fundamental problem as you make it > more and more complex and intrusive. Maybe that makes me an > Anarchist. I don't really mind. :-) the fundamental problem is not solvable, at least as far as i can see. anti-trust laws allieviate some of the results of the fundamental problem, no more than that. this unfortunate state of affairs is common to many aspects of life. look at what we put up with in terms of processor architecture (x86)--yeech! we cant solve the basic problem, but we can take steps the ameliorate the effects of the architecture on FreeBSD as a whole. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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