Re: What, exactly, is Apple's iPod business model?

On 9/3/07 11:21 AM, Tim Streater wrote:

[...] all
"self-appointed representatives of the common man", such as yourself,
are fascists. Do try and keep up.

I think you've hit the nail squarely on the head there. There is an
intense "control freakery" among certain sorts of Leftist's that can be
really frightening at times.

What I'm trying to figure out is how much of Edward's philosophy is
motivated by his desire to get a government stipend for programming
without a boss telling him what to do. Or whether that is a fortuitous
consequence of already deeply held beliefs.

I find it remarkable that after pointing out all of the problems that
capitalist bosses and markets impose on programmers that he could
actually imagine that putting politicians in charge would make matters
better. Surely those same problems would remain and be exacerbated
making which types of people get paid to code a political decision.

Any work on BSD based OSes would clearly have to be banned, since BSDers
openly worship the devil.

-j
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