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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel W. Koehler who wrote (43655)	4/27/2000 3:18:00 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Totally agree Daniel....throughout this whole "experience", have wondered what John Galt would do.....thought this article from the Ayn Rand Institute, and below that, a quote from AR might be appropriate... KLP aynrand.org Bill Gates Failed to Make a Moral Self-Defense April 4, 2000 MARINA DEL REY, CA?Judge Thomas Jackson?s decision against Microsoft is a travesty of justice, claimed Ayn Rand Institute senior writer Edwin A. Locke, but he also blamed Gates for not defending his right to his own life and property. ?The fundamental value our country was founded on is: the right to one?s own life ? which includes the right to one?s own property,? Locke said. ?This means that you have the right to trade freely with others, neither forcing others to accept your terms nor being forced by others to accept theirs. And it includes the right to make a profit, as big a profit as you are able to earn in a free, unregulated market.? ?If the existence of Gates? superbly productive company can be justified only in terms of a duty to serve the ?public interest,? then the government ? as the representative of that ?public? and the executor of its indefinable ?interests? ? has the right to dictate the terms of Gates? continued existence.? ?The government may claim the right to regulate your prices, your products, your contracts, and your methods of competing with your rivals. If you are only a servant of society, then nothing you do can be free of government controls.? Locke said that the only way Gates can fight government prosecutors is for the Microsoft founder to ?assert proudly his right to his own existence ? which means: the right to do business not as a public servant but as an individual with inalienable rights.? hypermall.com Ayn Rand Says... Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it. -- Ayn Rand