Re: Excerpts Fr Judge "Finding Of Facts"

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>Hi All, This from Tourbus an email service from Patrick Crispen and Bob
>Rankin. He read all the 410 pages and pulled 3 excerpts...
Yes, all quite good selections. I'm wading my way through the FoF (up to
about page 75, not including jumping around a bit).

>168. ....
A paragraph that shows that the company did not do something to benefit itself
as much as hurting the other guys. I was bemused by Gates' remarks on Friday
evening, where he claimed the We compete vigorously, but fairly. Where I come
from, "fairly" doesn't include slamming the other guys. The right way to sell 
more tires is to show everyone how great MY tires are, not by telling you
the Adam's tires (for example) are just awful.....

That this paragraph is here is also an affirmation that the term "Operating
System" doesn't mean what company says it means; the computer industry as a 
whole uses this as an accepted term.

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>355. ....
Yes, my business is about what I do, your business is about what you do. My
business ought not include intimidating you into what I want you to do. When
it does, I'm being coersive, a bully, and that's a situation that calls out
for someone to prevent me from acting in this inappropriate fashion. Thus we
have governments, and laws.

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>412. ...
Somehow, the company reserves the "right to innovate" to itself, at least by 
implication. After all, it acts in a harmful way AGAINST others' efforts to 
do the same thing, but is positioning itself as the champion of exactly that
right. This is semantic wordplay, at variance with their own actions.

There IS no "right to innovate", in legal terms. There IS an economic right
to be competitive, and innovation is part of that. The FREE market can decide
which innovations are to be adopted, and which ones get left behind. This means
that the MORE organizations that perform innovative work and have access to 
markets, the freer the market will be. We don't need one large company to be
the arbitor of this process, ESPECIALLY when they are pushing their own ideas,
but occasionally we DO need a large and sovereign organization (in this case
the government) to depose would-be arbitors.

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Thanks for these quotes, Robert!

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