From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-15 07:50:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:50:44 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A39E6.1070803@noplace.com> <3F3B8DB8.1060004@noplace.com> <3F3CDD55.8000609@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1060959044 23981 134.91.1.15 (15 Aug 2003 14:50:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:50:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/831)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41520 Date: 2003-08-15T14:50:44+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic 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