Nat
06-13-2000, 03:42 PM
Yesterday Bell and IBM, now Microsoft, tomorrow MasterCard... the list will
go on... with all petty (some call 'come on why petty!?!') complaints people
squabble with no regard to fundamental principles of life, ownership, right
to keep the fruits of one's own labor - is the mother of all questions if
one has to raise.
Unless Microsoft has literally robbed and used muscle power(incidentally
only Mafia and governments use that power) to make you buy its products,
they should be free to use any amount of leverage they could use (which they
earned too and did not come from sky) to propose you to enter them with "a
contract". If you do not like such a contract you are free not to buy or
use its products and pursue other alternatives. If those alternatives are
not able to sell the products based on Microsoft's Windows bundle, face with
all courage and integrity, and live like a human being rather than going
back to an oppressive dark ages system of laws that can rob you what you
or you cannot buy/sell/produce/consume, by how much and how long. This is
exactly what this country which we used to proudly call AMERICA is not about
- the only country that respected freedom and free choice. Free choice and
competition, if managed by a government are not free choice and competition.
Wake up folks and think for human's sake.
go on... with all petty (some call 'come on why petty!?!') complaints people
squabble with no regard to fundamental principles of life, ownership, right
to keep the fruits of one's own labor - is the mother of all questions if
one has to raise.
Unless Microsoft has literally robbed and used muscle power(incidentally
only Mafia and governments use that power) to make you buy its products,
they should be free to use any amount of leverage they could use (which they
earned too and did not come from sky) to propose you to enter them with "a
contract". If you do not like such a contract you are free not to buy or
use its products and pursue other alternatives. If those alternatives are
not able to sell the products based on Microsoft's Windows bundle, face with
all courage and integrity, and live like a human being rather than going
back to an oppressive dark ages system of laws that can rob you what you
or you cannot buy/sell/produce/consume, by how much and how long. This is
exactly what this country which we used to proudly call AMERICA is not about
- the only country that respected freedom and free choice. Free choice and
competition, if managed by a government are not free choice and competition.
Wake up folks and think for human's sake.