From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 01:59:23 MST
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
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