To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:06:07 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: equal pay
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:08:01 -0500 "lee gilliland"
<leeandalexis at hotmail.com> writes:
> When Libertairians start talking about why we don't need government
> supervision over private enterprise, I usually tell them I have 2
> words for
> them;  Bill Gates.
>

A considerable ego there, to be sure.  But your argument still might not
go over, since a bunch of libertarians held a public demonstration in
Washington against the anti-Microsoft suit a couple of years ago, as a
matter of principle, despite the fact that most of them probably didn't
think much of Gates, Windows, Microsoft, or its business practices.

I think the idea behind the protest was that Microsoft was being unfairly
attacked for its success, the government not being satisfied with the
billions in tax revenue it has garnered from Microsoft and its employees
over the years.  For most individual and small business PC users, using
Microsoft products is the path of least resistance, and I think MS will
continue to have a defacto monopoly in PC software to the extent that the
public continues to take that path of least resistance.

Ron Kean

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