Yes I do agree that Microsoft is the personification of evil couched in supposed free enterprise. This is what the left (remember them ?) where ranting and raving about back then. That capitalism can produce a globe girdling monopoly that would even surpass governments in power. Microsoft is the evil that abused the free enterprise system to kill all competition and has aquired such power to overturn even goverments actions against it. 50 years after that great war against evil we now have another evil to deal with, Microsoft. Microsoft represents what America has become today. Trampling on the very freedoms that it fought for 50 years ago !
While I agree the basic premise that M$ is evil... You grind our axe quite a bit crooked. No matter what system, there is always a propensity of certaing individuals of groups to abuse it. M$ does not reach, in the nature and scope, the evil of Stalin, Pol Pot (picking the left of the political spectrum on purpose here) and other dastardly characters and their followers of the 20th century. The advantage of the market based capitalist system is that hand-in-hand with freedom of commerce, individual rights take a precedence over group (collective) rights, and by implication provide a system of checks and ballances. It may be often a tough battle, but it is not like trying to fight nomenclatura and disappear either in psychiatric facility, prison, or entirely.
M$ is a representative of elements that have a basially totalitarian mindset and use the free market system to further their agenda. Their philosophy is in conflict with the basic conceptual framework of the capitalist founation and if I were to point out the communist tendencies in current USA, I would not hesitate to direct my finger at M$.
M$ does not represent USA. It is an anomaly --agreed, there has ben plenty of these, but it needs to be pointed out that the groups that subscribe to similar modus operandi are marginalized, as opposed to leftist ideologies that always seem to endow one big oppresive blob. And do not try to bring in nazis, they were much closer to extreme left than to anything else.
USA, despite the shortcommings, is still represented by their people, and thanks providence for that!
As another poster noted, visit USA, talk to people... then you'd see how your comparison is quite off base. (If you are living in USA, then I feel sorry for you, as you seem to checkout your brain somewhere, at some point).
Linux for me represents a trend to comodize OS' and leveling the field so that an actual competition (a capitalist concept) can take a hold; Linux can potentially create more wealth because of its open character--thus manifesting as the freedom of achievement, not as the freedom of entitlement. Nothing can be more "capitalistic" than that.
No, I am not an American, I am a Canadian. I also lived for my first 30 years under a communist regime, so I may have some degree of insight into these things.
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Re:Microsoft is Evil
Posted by: lu666s on August 19, 2003 09:47 AMWhile I agree the basic premise that M$ is evil...
You grind our axe quite a bit crooked.
No matter what system, there is always a propensity of certaing individuals of groups to abuse it. M$ does not reach, in the nature and scope, the evil of Stalin, Pol Pot (picking the left of the political spectrum on purpose here) and other dastardly characters and their followers of the 20th century. The advantage of the market based capitalist system is that hand-in-hand with freedom of commerce, individual rights take a precedence over group (collective) rights, and by implication provide a system of checks and ballances. It may be often a tough battle, but it is not like trying to fight nomenclatura and disappear either in psychiatric facility, prison, or entirely.
M$ is a representative of elements that have a basially totalitarian mindset and use the free market system to further their agenda. Their philosophy is in conflict with the basic conceptual framework of the capitalist founation and if I were to point out the communist tendencies in current USA, I would not hesitate to direct my finger at M$.
M$ does not represent USA. It is an anomaly --agreed, there has ben plenty of these, but it needs to be pointed out that the groups that subscribe to similar modus operandi are marginalized, as opposed to leftist ideologies that always seem to endow one big oppresive blob. And do not try to bring in nazis, they were much closer to extreme left than to anything else.
USA, despite the shortcommings, is still represented by their people, and thanks providence for that!
As another poster noted, visit USA, talk to people... then you'd see how your comparison is quite off base. (If you are living in USA, then I feel sorry for you, as you seem to checkout your brain somewhere, at some point).
Linux for me represents a trend to comodize OS' and leveling the field so that an actual competition (a capitalist concept) can take a hold; Linux can potentially create more wealth because of its open character--thus manifesting as the freedom of achievement, not as the freedom of entitlement. Nothing can be more "capitalistic" than that.
No, I am not an American, I am a Canadian. I also lived for my first 30 years under a communist regime, so I may have some degree of insight into these things.
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