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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (5007)	2/5/1998 4:46:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 74651

Well, not by me. I am a pragmatist, and consider Randian philosophy adolescent self-righteous ideology. I found it interesting when I was 15--well, I admit it, I devoured her stuff then--and while I consider some of here novels still interesting, I consider the philosophy wholly irrelevant to financial issues except in as much as her point of view has affected the psychology of those who participate in markets... So, to keep us on topic of MSFT price growth, I think what I find undermines some of the arguments here is that they are overly influenced by ideology than sound analysis of the market. JMO

To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (5007)	2/5/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Larry, I promise not to pollute this august forum after this message, I been around the block on this issue a time or two. The thing about your impassioned defense of "freedom" as defined by Rand, there's this little issue of coercion that comes up. You said, It is you who are allied with the thugs of the world who wish to impose their own version of rectitude on the mutually voluntary transactions of consenting adults and have no compunction about initiating the use of force to do so. Well, there's force and there's force. Consider the case of one Joachim Kempin, as described in zdnet.com . Is there perhaps some element of coercion in Microsoft's dealing with the OEMs? When Microsoft threatened to pull the plug on Compaq over the issue of placement of the sacred IE icon, did Compaq's actions perhaps become somewhat less voluntary? Not a subject I'd care to debate, I hear Objectivists sometimes disagree about this stuff. As others can verify, I tend to merely state that Rand has no legal standing that I know of, and leave it at that. Cheers, Dan.