Re: Apple and EMI

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:28:44 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The corollary is that just because something is worth money doesn't mean
it's worth anything else.

The association is that trying to claim that one's opinions have value
because someone paid for them is a house of cards.

If I shat in a box and managed to sell it to someone, then by definition
my turd-in-a-box has value. Rowland is completely right (and I am not
implying that his words are anything like defecations in containers) -
the question was whether his words were worth anything, and the fact that
he was paid for them means that yes, they were.

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