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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (47535)	12/15/2004 9:19:52 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

<"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." --Honore de Balzac, French realist novelist (1799 - 1850) > ISN'T WARREN BUFFETT A WONDERFUL PERSON? Yes, the wise and kind billionaire-of-the-people. So eager to espouse the proper morality of business and economics. And such a vile hypocrite. Now his insurance subsidiary GEICO is suing Google for trademark infringement, objecting to the fact that when people type the word "geico" into Google, they get ads from other insurers (along with their search results). GEICO may own its name as a trademark for insurance services, but to prohibit Google from displaying ads when people search on it is tantamount to saying that trademark owners can block people from even speaking their trademarks out loud, and then carrying on conversations based on such speech. Buffett should be ashamed at this attack on freedom of speech -- and of wasting his shareholder's money pursuing it. Thanks to reader Ashby Foote for the link. Posted by Donald Luskin at 1:14 PM \| link