Subj : Reality Check!
To   : MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
From : PETER BRADIE
Date : Sat Nov 02 2002 05:12 pm

MD> Nobody is forbidding anyuone to start an echo. I said it is not what the 
users
MD> want, that is somnething entirely different.

Michiel, you accused the elist system of being a dictatorship.  Now your 
saying that a dictatorship is something that is not what the users want.  I 
simply 
pointed out that the users have many ways around what you are objecting to, 
so obviously the elist system isn't a dictatorship.

MD>  PB> That's also a monopoly, but you don't appear to have a
MD>  PB> grasp of economic theory any better than your grasp of
MD>  PB> political theory.

MD> Ah yes, that old fight'o'net attitude: belittle the opponent if you can not
MD> convince him.

If you categorically state that the moon is really made of green cheese, it's 
not my obligation to convince you otherwise in order to convince people that 
you do not know what you're talking about.  I didn't set you up; you set 
yourself up.

MD>  PB> If you want the right to take away the intellectual property
MD>  PB> of the person who started the echo, that's sanctioned theft.

MD> Intelectual property applies to works of science or art. An echo does not
MD> qualify as such. The intelectual property yoy refer to does not exist.

Add law to your list of shortcomings.
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