From: Patrick May <pjm@spe.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 06:01:44 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Time to Pay the Piper
In-Reply-To: <19980102.081442.attila@hun.org>
Message-ID: <1669-Sat03Jan1998030310-0800-Patrick May <pjm@spe.com>
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Attila T. Hun writes:
[ . . . ]
 > > At 05:15 PM 12/21/1997 +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote:
 > >>    there is only one solution to organizations like M$ 
 > >>    which are operated without ethics: treat them to the
 > >>    pleasures of not only the antitrust laws but the 
 > >>    exquisite delights of RICO.
[ . . . ]
 >     1)  when a true market monopoly exists, society _is_
 >         entitled to intervene. I wrote my Harvard thesis on
 >         antitrust and the effect on society of a monopoly,

     Ah, that explains why a bad-ass with a vocabulary would spout
such nonsense.  That little liberal arts college up the river from my
alma mater can corrupt even the finest minds.

     Rather than go down yet another libertarian v. statist debate
rathole, I'll just quote one of the more notorious (former) list
members by saying:  "I have a solution for that."

     The federal government should immediately stop purchasing and
using Microsoft products.  No more monopoly, no court cases, no
delay.  Free market and technical solutions are always superior to
legal remedies.

Regards,

Patrick May
S P Engineering, Inc.