[nylug-talk] Finally, some closure on all the Dell anti-FOSS conspiracy threads...

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

From: Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com>

> Ah, indeed, and these kinds of arrangements have been, for more
> than thirty years, used by me in my standard rants on economics
> as she is taught by professors of economics.

Most professors of economics teach that crap Marx and Galbraith came up with.  The reason they're professors is because they can't make a living in the real economic world.  Try some Hayek or Friedman if you want to know how real world economics should work.  (I say "should" because there is a shitload of government interference in the market).

> But Dell and Microsoft are under court order not to do what they
> do, and yet they do it.  Microsoft and Dell are engaged in a long
> running combination in restraint of trade. It is illegal, and it
> has been adjudicated, and Microsoft lost.  This is part of the
> outcome of the big Microsoft antitrust case.

The FBI, FDA, BATFE, CIA, NSA,  FCC and a lot of other agencies have no grounding under Constitutional authority.  (Anybody wh disagrees is welcome to send me the clause in the document that grants them existence).  Money is power.  Statists with power have lots of guys with guns.

If the guys with guns wanted Mickeysoft put down, they would do it.  But most burearats don't have the brains to use anything except what they were potty-trained on, so the Redmond boys will never get more than wrist slaps.  (Come on, imagine GWB or Hillary trying to use something as complicated as Kubuntu or a shovel).
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

The reason folks don't think of installing Windows as a painful experience is roughly the same reason men don't think of childbirth as a painful experience.      Mike, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/letters_3003/