From owner-freebsd-chat  Thu May 21 05:57:53 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02507
          for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 05:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: (from jmb@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02436;
          Thu, 21 May 1998 05:56:42 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from jmb)
From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
Message-Id: <199805211256.FAA02436@hub.freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft...
In-Reply-To: <21093.895690380@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 20, 98 11:53:00 am"
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 05:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: fpawlak@execpc.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, kline@tera.tera.com,
        freebsd@atipa.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

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