[Am-info] Ayn Rand Institute?

[John J. Urbaniak]

I forgot to state that Onkar Ghate is a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand
Institute.

John


"John J. Urbaniak" wrote:

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> madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
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>> In <3C952C08.6020004@namesys.com>, on 03/18/02 at 02:51 AM,
>>    Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said:
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>> >Ayn Rand is rumored to be popular at Microsoft.
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>> And I see after a search on Microsoft at the Ayn Rand site that they
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>> certainly are head over heals against any attempt to enforce
>> anti-trust
>> laws - http://microsoft.aynrand.org/
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> Yeah, the reason I asked is that a huge article appeared in Sunday's
> Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.  It was written by Onkar Ghate, and was
> titled "The Microsoft Case - Bill Gates & Co. deserve a soft landing
> in the courts."
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> The author (he or she, I don't know?) made many absurd, incorrect and
> misleading statements.
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> The most absurd was this one: "It [Microsoft] faces constant
> competition, even if there are no actual competitors presently in its
> market."  No competitors = constant competition?  Huh?
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> The article recommends a $1 fine against Microsoft!
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> I wrote a massive rebuttal and sent it to the Trib.  I wonder if
> they'll print it.
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>> These folks are more insane then I thought.
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> Actually, they seem to have completely hijacked Ayn Rand's philosophy
> to mean "Microsoft is big, therefore they are virtuous."  Ms. Rand
> never said or intended anything like that.
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> John
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