Re: Fwd: Wall Street article on a new Cooperative

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:23:26PM -0400, L Jean Camp wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
> >Avalanche Project
> >Is Clearing the Path
> >For Tech Cooperation
> >April 12, 2004; Page B1
> >
> >Co-ops have been a fact of life inU.S. agriculture for decades,
> >with farmers banding together to solve common problems. Now, a
> >group of computer chiefs at some of America's biggest companies are
> >trying to do the same thing with technology.

Is this supposed to be good news?  I don't believe that giant
corporations do "co-ops" in the sense that small farmers do.  The real
word for the practice is trusts, as in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

And speaking of trust, I trust these greedy, short-sighted sons of
bitches about as far as I can throw them.  They are *not* operating in
the public interest, even by accident.

Cheers,
D
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