12 Dec
2004
12 Dec
'04
4:07 p.m.
Last Sunday 12 December 2004 18:57, Mark Knecht was like:
Really. I was going to point out that that is exactly what Karl Marx
(or was that Groucho) said. You can see how well that worked out.
Jan
Groucho was a genius. Not so sure about Karl.
Of course, I should have added that he has a right to his opinion, but
so do I. I believe in patents, intellectual property, and the right of
a corporation to deceptively market products to me in an attempt to
get my money. I do not believe companies owe me anything, whether I've
given them money or not, and Santa Claus.
LOL!
If they've successfully conned you thus far, why stop at Santa Claws?
Putting cooperation above money is a noble ideal, I actually fail to
understand why anyone would disagree with it. That's not to say we should be
naive about market forces, but there's no need to wheel out tired old truisms
in their defence. I do uphold your right to be horribly misled, however. ;-)
cheers
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:55:05 -0600, Jan Depner
<eviltwin69(a)cableone.net>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 09:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:03:40 +0100, Esben Stien <executiv(a)online.no>
wrote:
Frank
Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> writes:
> So basically they want to protect their investment in getting
> knowledge of how to implement a powerful firewire interface from
> the eyes of other hardware manufacturers.
A society where you put money higher than cooperating with other
people is not a good society, in my opinion.
Socialism - it ain't pretty...