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May 16, 1:07 pm, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Jerry Kraus" <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 16, 12:50 pm, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Jerry Kraus" <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 16, 12:39 pm, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > "Jerry Kraus" <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On May 16, 12:27 pm, David Johnston <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:05:24 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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> > > > >On May 16, 11:57 am, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > >> "Jerry Kraus" <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > >> On May 16, 10:34 am, DarkMatter <darkmatte...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > >> >Bill Gates got rich because he is very
> > > > >> > gifted in software,
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> > > > >> Bill Gates hasn't written any software. He's stolen everything
> > > > >> he's
> > > > >> used. Bill Gates got rich because his father was a cor****ation
> > > > >> lawyer
> > > > >> and, from his teens, old Bill Gates was obsessed with enforcing
> > > > >> copyright law on software. Which is exactly what Bill Gates has
> > > > >> spent
> > > > >> his career doing -- enforcing copyright law on software he
stole
> > > > >> from
> > > > >> other people. Bill Gates is a manipulator, a parasite and a
> > > > >> monopolist. Capitalist S***.
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> > > > >> [JG] I;m no fan of Gates, but you're flat out wrong. Gates
bought
> > > > >> the
> > > > >> OS
> > > > >> from Digital Research, fair and square. DR was dumb, Gates was
> > > > >> smart,
> > > > >> and if
> > > > >> you have any character in you at all, you want smart to be
> > > > >> rewarded.
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> > > > >> He then sold the OS to IBM as the OS for the first PC, started
> > > > >> ca****ng
> > > > >> the
> > > > >> royalty checks, and the rest is history.
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> > > > >> JG
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> > > > >I'm sorry. I believe that's exactly what I just said.
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> > > > Except for the part about buying things not being stealing. - Hide
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> > > Depends on the conditions of purchase.
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> > > [JG] Unless you can show that Gates held a gun to DR's head, the
> > > conditions
> > > of purchase are irrelevant. Two willing parties entered into a
> > > transaction
> > > of their own free will.
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> > > Gates is a monopolist.
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> > > [JG] Irrelevant.
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> > > Microsoft just tried to "buy" Yahoo, very much against the will of
its
> > > CEO, Jerry Yang. Yang had to fight them off. With considerable
> > > difficulty.
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> > > [JG] All perfectly legal. You're confusing what you don't like with
> > > what's
> > > immoral and/or illegal.
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> > You're confusing what's legal with what's moral.
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> > [JG] Never do. All of the above is also moral.
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> Ah, another Capitalist who is incapable of error as long as he is
> making money. I could see you'd relate well to Gates.
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> [JG] Non sequitur rubbish. The fact is that both activities involved an
> offer to individuals to sell an asset which they chose to do so (or not)
> of
> their own free will. There are few things more **moral** than the
freedom
> to
> do with an asset whatever one wishes.
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> Thus, the immoral agent is you.
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Capitalist propaganda and Rubbish. Money is the only reality.
[JG] Far from it. But, lets not get sidetracked. If you believe that a
person should ***not*** be able to enter into a free will transaction for
the purchase or a sale of an asset, explain why that's not
totalitarianism,
and if you admit that it is, explain why totalitarianism is suddenly
moral.
Don't waste our time with your puerile musings.
JG
Money
is the ultimate good. Money is the only morality. No wonder your
system is going down the toilet. Enjoy the ride. Along with your
money.
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