Re: uninstallation

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

In reply to Steve Cohen's message sent 1/25/98 8:03 PM:

>Here's where we differ:
>I don't expect to retain an unregulated marketplace.  THIS marketplace needs
>some kind of regulation.  I'm not flinching from that, and neither, 
>apparently is
>the Justice Dept.  Sure it's a long shot.  But so is your consumer boycott.

I won't argue the point of what constitutes a "long shot," as no one can 
accurately predict the outcomes. But as a matter of basic principle, it 
seems a more sound strategy to act in one's own best interests as a 
consumer than to count on government intervention to correct an 
unwillingness to do so.

Telegraphing to Microsoft that you intend on buying their products no 
matter what they shovel in your direction, and no matter what the 
competition offers, is a formula for ever greater distortions in the 
market. Choice in the marketplace is like choice in politics: you've got 
to use it, or lose it. Pollyanna maybe, but none the less true for it.

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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   The superior man understands what is right; the 
   inferior man understands what will sell  --- Confucious