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To: miraje who wrote (18992)	5/12/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sure James. You lead with "first of all, kill all the lawyers", then we get the "principled politician oxymoron". As resident Shirley Temple idealist, christened thus by the last "kill all the lawyers" guy around here, I got to ask what principles you're expecting Bill to uphold for you. Speaking of oxymorons, there's the famous "business ethics" conundrum, it's unethical to be ethical or vice versa. I think most people would agree that the closest thing you'll see to a principle from Bill is something like Al Davis' dictum, "Just win, baby". That's ok too, I just think it's something that needs to be understood. The Brian Mulloy post that caused me to poke my head into that other forum went on about "Bill the friend of the common man" thing, Reggie's brought that up too. You got to square that with John Dvorak's experience of the integrity and uniformity. . . As for the lawyers, I feel obligated to point out, for the hundredth time or so, that Microsoft has good lawyers and isn't the least bit shy about using them, particularly against little guys without the means to fight back. I've heard rumors that Objectivists are supposed to be a principled lot, locally Justin seems to think so, and this Hal Rubel guy over on the other thread too. I got a hard time squaring that with the much more predominant "Bill Gates is John Galt sentiment. Small minded guy that I am, I haven't grokked the correct definition of "coercion" yet, where it's like what goes on in Bosnia, and to say there's an element of it in, say, Microsoft's dealings with Compaq is to engage in "Orwellian Newspeak" or the big lie or something. I better stop before the big lie thing leads me to bring up the usual suspect pronouncements of Bill. Cheers, Dan.