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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.120236.23551@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec21.154910.6846@kth.se> <1992Dec21.164545.28198@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzn3M2.IvJ@csfb1.fir.fbc.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:02:36 GMT
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- In article <Bzn3M2.IvJ@csfb1.fir.fbc.com>, jbrock@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (John Brock) writes:
- |>
- |> I get the impression that you are one of those people who have elevated
- |> the free market to the status of an absolute moral value.
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- I'm glad you want to talk about absolute moral value, because it is
- absolutely morally WRONG for the FTC to steal Microsoft's trade secrets.
-
- It doesn't matter that it is legal. Theft doesn't become morally right
- when a law is passed which allows it.
-
- It doesn't matter that its the goverment is doing it. Theft doesn't become
- morally right when the goverment does it.
-
- It doesn't matter if "we, the people" vote on it. Theft doesn't become
- morally right just because the majority votes for it.
-
- |> We, as a people, acting through our government, have decided that this
- |> is unacceptable, and that we will prevent it by interfering with the
- |> free market system.
-
- Do you really want to live in a country where We, the people, can all
- gang up on you, a person, and steal from you? Because that's exactly
- what's happening to Microsoft.
-