> >Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote:

> >>AnimalMagic wrote:

> >>>You WinHater FuckTards really make me sick.

> >>Why would you become so emotionally involved over
> >>someone's OS preference?

> >Because he's Always Wrong.

> Ah. That explains the preference for Windows over Linux. :)

> >>> So is Bill [gates] a businessman, or a thief?

> >>You probably aren't aware that I am a libertarian.
> >>A transaction where a willing buyer buys something
> >> -- even if that something is crap -- from a willing
> >>seller can never be theft.

> >It is if the seller violated law and ethics in
> >restricting your choices.

> Do you mean a seller restricting a buyer's choices
> during the transaction where a willing buyer buys
> something from a willing seller, or do you mean
> the seller doing something outside that transaction?
> I said that a transaction where a willing buyer buys
> something from a willing seller can never be theft,
> but I didn't say that the seller or the buyer couldn't
> do thinhgs outside that transaction wiich are theft.

> The phrase "willing buyer buying from a willing seller"
> implies that either can choose to restrict the choices
> of the other.  I would like to be paid $10,000 per hour,
> but all my clients are conspiring to restrict me from
> that choice.  My clients who would no doubt like to
> only pay me $1 per hour, but I am restricting their
> choices by refusing to accept a job at that rate.

> In the same way, as long as Microsoft doesn't stop me
> from buying a Macintosh or installing Linux, selling
> Windows is not theft. This is not to say that MS does
> not engage in unethical and illegal business practices,
> just that selling a copy of Windows is not one of them.

> --
> Guy Macon
> <http://www.GuyMacon.com/>