From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 04:55:48 MST
On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 12:59 AM, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
>>> (Alfio Puglisi <puglisi@arcetri.astro.it>):
>>> ...
>>> The subsequent monopoly was the result of various illegal activities,
>>> as
>>> found by a variety of legal courts.
>>>
>>> Because of those reasons, I don't consider the $50 billion bank
>>> account
>>> the consequence of any real value provided to the world. Quite the
>>> contrary in fact.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Please let's not confuse legal/illegal with right/wrong. They are
>> completely orthoganal concepts, and I personally have no use for the
>> first one at all.
>
> I agree that they are totally separate concepts. I used the
> "legal/illegal" just because there is some objective reference that one
> is
> supposed to follow. If I got into a right/wrong debate, there would be
> too
> many opionions about what's right and what's wrong.
> Personally, I see Microsoft actions as "wrong" much more than illegal,
> that is, the illegal actions are a little subset of the wrong ones. But
> please let's not start a debate on this :-)
>
> Ciao,
> Alfio
>
Bill Gates' charity: charities are tax-free.
Not that that's wrong, it's just that charities are tax-free.
Accomplishment: largest tax shelter ever.
All that money went into shorting good stocks. Bye bye,
Ross
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