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To: TobagoJack who wrote (48150)	4/8/2004 12:34:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Linux may turn out to be greater, when and if it is its turn.> Jay, communism is good, if it works. Which I haven't seen it do. Love and your father's way of doing business is even better - philanthropic investing saves the waste of accounting. Altruism, where one simply gives away good ideas, efforts and so on, is good too. In practise, in a world where nearly everyone really does want to get more than they've got, and they need to sell things and services to get more money for what they want, communism and altruism sound good but don't work. Noblesse oblige, philanthropic investor types can afford to be generous and donate their stuff. The rest need to make money! Linux was a nice donation by the creators, but the need to make money surrounds it now. I think Microsoft, with brand protection, liability and so on is the way to bet. I like it. Random stuff like Linux where everybody dabbles with no legal liability or need to get it right isn't usually the way I like to do things. Not for important stuff anyway. My favourite way of doing things is communism, giving ideas away, trust and love. That works up close and personal, with a few individuals. Unfortunately, there are few people with whom one can use those principles. There are millions of them, but like spies, they look like everyone else, so they are very hard to identify. Maybe cyberspace will give reliable reputation ratings at some stage. rrr.com I'll click and see if it's being done. Hmmm, it's Risk Retention Reporter insurance stuff. Well, that's a similar business. Maybe they'll branch out into rrr. Mqurice Disclaimer = I don't really know anything about Linux, so I might be off-base with my comments, or as Yiwu says, a mad dog barking up the wrong tree.