On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:59:46 -0500, "Eric Freeman"
<eri### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:

>I wasn't going to jump into this thread, because it is not on the subject of
>Moray, but I couldn't help it.
>
>Julian wrote in message <3535E457.3FDCAD7A@tig.com.au>...
>[snip]
>>If the likes of bill gates got their greedy little hands on it you could
>[snip]
>
>I'm just sick of people bashing Bill Gates.  Sure... he may be greedy, but
>having never met him, I don't know.  If you think that all rich people are
>greedy, you are mistaken.

Julian didn't mention the word rich one time. So, what are you talkin'
about? We're talkin' about style here, Eric.
Bill Gates is sellin' the boulevard-press of coding, man! With an
outlook of how the mass might imagine an egghead who nows! But he is
just a selfmirroring lunatic, who wants power! And if you don't watch
out, you'll find out. If you ever will. Your' talkin' freedom? Freedom
starts with education on this earth, my friend! That's the highest
responsibility, one can take here! One tragedy with nouveaux riches is
their lack in education for the responsibility to educate.  I know
rich people, very rich people and I know poor people, very poor
people. I have friends amongst them. But I would never say, I like
rich people or I like poor people. That's ridiculous and insane.
There's only people, one by one. And I would not like Bill Gates to be
my neighbour. I would not want to buy a thing from him. But I do like
to use Moray. And Softronics probably choose MS stuff because they
want to survive.

> Bill gets his salary because free people in a
>free society are willing to buy his product.  He gets the vast majority of
>his wealth because free people in a free society are willing to buy stock in
>his company... he doesn't set the price of MS stock, others do.  The only
>way to get rid of the rich is to get rid of freedom.

The thing with the rich seems to be more a problem at your side.

>
>Eric
>
>--------------------------------
>"Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its
>victims may be the most oppressive. 

Oh boy! This sounds to me like the swan song for Mr. Gates! He's the
one, who's killing brands with a smile on his face! He, really or not,
who will ever know that, thinks, he's the bit messiah of the world,
man! Are you blind? He's trying to kill every market, he can reach!
He is trying with allmight and would not hesitate to monopolyse any
market he can reach! Did you ever try to picture this guy, leaning
back, sighing, smoking a cigar, saying, that's enough now, let's live!
Can you?!? Never, man, I cannot! That's why I speak out!
Do we need such a man, who never stops?
We had one over here in germany, man, really exciting!
You may admire him for his thrust, but, oh, be careful !

>It may be better to
>live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral
>busybodies.  The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes
>sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
>who torment us for our own good will torment us without end

sigh, man, sigh!

>for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
>                                 * C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
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>http://www.datasync.com/~reba/
>>expect "hey lets make lotsa $$$$ on this..and hey we hardly even spend a
>>DIME on its developement..Muahhahaha" :)
>>All that aside, Moray is great!!
>
>

steff

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