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- From: JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu (James Justice)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 02:49:44 GMT
- References: <Bzvxpw.Lx3@csulb.edu> <1992Dec27.035536.7481@tc.cornell.edu><Bzwwrn.8uM@csulb.edu> <1992Dec27.144612.18117@tc.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec27.144612.18117@tc.cornell.edu>, bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu
- (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) says:
- >
- >Only the US law is coersive, if it uses _force_ to limit MS from
- >selling its property as it chooses to whoever chooses to buy it.
- >
- ....
- >If property rights are not absolute, then they are not absolute
- >for the competitors as well. It is then appropriate for MS to
- >use "predatory tactics" ( your favorite phrase ).
- >
- If I remember my history correctly, the US had decided before it was very old
- that "Freedom of Speech" was not absolute, no one has the right to yell FIRE
- in a crowded theater!
-
- The constution itself makes it clear that property rights are not absolute!
- The state always has the right to condemn property for public use and pay the
- owner a fair price as determined in a court of law.
-
- I would love to see CRAY try and claim that it has absolute property rights
- to its computers and since Russia or China wants one it is going to sell them
- one! Or maybe some American company wants to sell an F16 or B1 bomber!
-
- The anti-trust stuff is just one aspect of the basic concept that no
- property rights are absolute! You don't even have absolute right to your own
- body. You can't put certain drugs into it, you have no authority to kill
- yourself, and selling sex is illegal in most places.
-
- Come on give us a break with this absolute right to do what ever you want
- with your property argument. No government or human society has ever
- given any individual absolute right to any property! No government or human
- society ever will! All you have to do is something the society does like
- with your property and you quickly find out how many absolute rights you
- have.
-