Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

1/13/01 11:05:04 AM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:

>I own my servers, I can control what is put on
>them.   The amount of money I make or lose is irrelevant.

i don't think you mean that latter bit... if you keep losing money, you'll go out of business.

>You don't eat what you please, you eat what the restaurant cooks, or you
>go elsewhere.  The waiter has nothing to do with it -- the waiter is a
>flunky who works for the guy that owns the restaurant, and it is the guy
>who owns the restaurant that calls the shots.

I guess you haven't noticed that most restaurants these days (including the big boys like McDonalds) have diversified what they offer and now include 
pretty much everything you could possibly wish to order... fish, chicken, pizza, salads, etc... of course, they were forced to do so by COMPETITION!  If 
McDonalds were to withdraw into a shell and only sell Big Macs, what do you think would happen?  I bet their market share of restaurant customers 
would drop significantly.  Don't you think this would matter to the shareholders?!?

>No, you are paying for a limited number of choices that the restaurant
>offers.  If you don't behave according to the rules of the establishment
>the owner can throw you out.  If you want to eat something that the
>restaurant doesn't offer, then you buy a kitchen and fix what you want. 

Again, I don't think McDonalds and the rest would want us to do that... do you?

Please, save it for the ignoramuses.  If the people of this WG have stuck around this long, it's because they're determined not to be fooled by those who 
wish to convince them to concede their Individual rights by manufactured "consensus".  No rights in the market, huh?   What about the rights *to* a free 
market then?  Let's not apply a double standard here gents.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.




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