Re: Re: slanted article "Inside System Storage -- by Tony Pearson"

On 25/09/2010 01:02, Paul Raulerson wrote:

> It's all tied up with property rights. I might have alluded to being a bit libertarian, and one of the things most libertarians tend to agree on is that all rights derive from property rights. (The first one, of course, being that you own your body and can whatever the heck you want to do with it. Amazing how many people think they are owned by their country or whatever...)

> If you own something, you should be able to choose whether you want to distribute it, and on what terms.

Except that IBM is not a "you", it is a giant multinational corporation.

You cannot just take principles which are meant to protect the rights of 
individuals, and apply them equally to corporations.

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Cordialement,
Roger Bowler
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Hercules "the people's mainframe"