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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- From: sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:15:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.000917.7829@tc.cornell.edu> <BzuFBF.8Dq@csulb.edu> <1992Dec26.040250.11884@tc.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec26.040250.11884@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >In article <BzuFBF.8Dq@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec26.000917.7829@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >
- >>>First let's clarify something. I think that if MS writes software this
- >>>software is the propery of MS. Do you agree to this ? If you don't I
- >>>would like to hear why. If you do, why do you think that BG is doing
- >>>anything inappropriate if he trades his property with others, in
- >>>what seems to him the most profitable way for MS.
- >>
- >> Property rights, which may or may not be totally applicable here
- >>(there are copyright issues here which are not identical to either traditional
- >>property rights for more tangible property or the more absolutist principles
- >>you seem to expouse) do not exempt one from established obligations of the
- >>marketplace when you seek to sell or otherwise transfer said property.
- >>Though this concept is contested by Libertarian types.
- >
- >Please answer in a definite way: Do you support a position that denies
- >an individual/company from selling/buying _voluntarily_ their property
- >under certain conditions ?
-
- I don't think I understand what you mean by 'under certain conditions'.
- While I accept their right to choose to sell or not to sell their property
- at their discretion, I do not accept the premise that they have an unfettered
- right to sell (or, more generally, make contracts) in whatever way they see
- fit independent of the laws and practices governing commercial activity in
- this country. We are not discussing their right to distribute or to set
- the price, but the way they interact with the market at large and an
- obligation to engage in fair dealing in that marketplace.
-
- If all MS wants to do is contemplate the beauty of their creations they
- can exercise their property rights to their hearts content. If they want to
- participate in the marketplace, they will have to follow the rules that
- govern it for the establishment of good order. That is what the FTC is
- tasked to examine and make determinations about and MS will have plenty
- of opportunity to contest, challenge, and otherwise deal with any conclusions
- and actions coming from the FTC as befits their right to due process.
-
- >
- >I dont think that there is any point in continuing this discussion
- >unless we clarify this point.
-
- There never was any point in it. This is usenet.
-
- --
- Jeff Sicherman
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