Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
: Its called the "Free Enterprise System" and it is neither illegal nor 
: immoral.

Nor is it legal or moral per se, because otherwise there were
no prosecutions.

: It works to allocate resources in the most efficient means 
: possible. Nobody "designed" it. Its what people do when you leave them 
: alone.

That's a world view "argument".

: Government regulation is needed to make sure that the rules get followed 
: and the contest is "fair".

And Government regulation is not independent, and sometimes
designed to help certain winning strategies.

: After that, its like a football game.

As long as the other team isn't so wounded that they cannot
go on, or the good player have been bought from the loosing
team before the match. That's the difference. Do you remember
the martial rhetorics of early Netscape etc.

: That doesn't sound like gangsters to me. Perhaps you don't like free 
: enterprise, but nobody has a better system yet.

I like really free enterprise, in a fair setting, not the
rediculous fighting for contracts and rectal visits that many
enterprises find themselves in. Maybe there isn't anything better.
What I don't like is that questions of managerial
perception of competence and questions of knowing the right people
matter more than anything else in far too many cases.

But we would end up again discussion whether a better product
is a product that just works better in its current market, or
one that is technically better, for example.


Georg