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To: M31 who wrote (8170)	5/30/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Carlos Blanco	of 74651

<<...consumers and producers should be left unregulated...>> Sorry, you're in the wrong country! Try Somalia. I believe they're still in a state of anarchy. You shouldn't take selected parts of my sentence out of context to make it appear scandalous. From the the rest of the sentence it's clear that I was referring to lack of marketplace regulations wrt. producing, selling, and buying products. I do not advocate no rules or no government. I advocate the two rules which government was instituted to enforce and protect from physical violation: right to your life and the right to your property. All individual actions are subordinate to these two rules. These are not rights to a prosperous company and life, nor are they rights to market or ship your product or property via any particular vehicle. They are merely rights to set the licensing terms for your intellectual or physical property, and to make your property available for use under those terms. That's is why I support Microsoft's right to: create any product they wish with any features they wish set whatever licensing terms they wish for the usage of such products talk (not act) wrt. their competitors in whatever manner they see fit The above do not affect anyone else's rights wrt. their property--anyone can still freely: create comparable (or differing) products set their terms for the licensing and use of such products speak and think about Microsoft in whatever way they want in their own private or public e-mails Rules and rights should either apply equally to all, or to none. Denying Microsoft the right to determine features and licensing terms for its intellectual property while simultaneously allowing everyone else to keep such rights is fundamentally discriminatory and wrong. And it's particularly perverse that the reason given for imposing such a handicap is that the company has sold more units of its product than anyone else. --Carlos

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