[extropy-chat] Agreement on principles. (was Microsoft)

[Amara Graps]

KAZ kazvorpal at yahoo.com :
>I'm pretty sure he was attempting to rebutt me with a reductio ad
>absurdum argument, though he obviously failed, since his faith in
>bureaucracy caused him to overlook the fact that what HE thinks of as
>"democracy", majority rule, really is markedly inferior to the free
>market (meaning each person ruling his own life and deciding what
>decisions to make in each case separately).

>It's funny to watch academics and elitist-wannabes angrily declaring
>free choice to be an evil mistake, because their favorite stuff is
>constantly passed over for stuff which is objectively better, thanks to
>their personal criteria for value judgement being wrong.

>History's littered with their remains. I always go back to Beta and
>OS/2, though, as the most laughable examples of inferior products being
>touted by people with poor judgement, a few of whom stick with them to
>this day.

Is ranting helpful to this list? I don't see the point of any of these
paragraphs. If referring to Eugen, then I wish you would read more of
his words before posting, since what you write about him makes even less
sense.

Amara

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