[ga] Critics say VeriSign still has...

[gavin.stokes@autodesk.com]

How about shortage?  How about inflation?

There are many commercial laws in this country designed to prevent things that "harm the consumer", and generally that harm is financial.  Look at the Microsoft case.  I'm not saying that's a good case.  And I'm not saying that these are always any more practicable than the idea I brought up.

Last year we had congressional action when the price of gas in Chicago went above $2 for no good reason.  Ineffectual, sure.  But this idea isn't foreign.


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Greenwell [mailto:patrick@stealthgeeks.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:21 PM
To: gavin.stokes@autodesk.com
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Critics say VeriSign still has...


On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 gavin.stokes@autodesk.com wrote:

> > That makes absolutely no sense at all.  You assume that this move
> > would be positive, but in fact, one of the key components in a healthy
> > environment for an industry is the existence of such speculative
> > efforts.
>
> Hm.  Why don't you tell us how these "speculative efforts" are helping this
> "industry".

Perhaps because they generate revenue for the industry. What economic
incentives could you point to that are gained from the prevention of
speculation?

Why is speculation in real estate a long-practiced tradition and
considered "good business" while people are trying to cast domain
speculation as "bad?"

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