[Am-info] Ayn Rand Institute?

[Geoffrey]

I know little of the institute, but I've read "atlas shrugged" and I 
don't come away with the same impression I'm reading here.  Either the 
institute has digressed substantially from the points the book makes, or 
I missed the boat.

It's been a while since I read it, so bear with me.

As I recall the book is about a few folks who are fighting the establish 
way of business.  These few folks believe in good quality work, whereas 
the established way of business is for the businesses to take care of 
each other.  These folks eventually create their own little hidden 
world.  I guess the big difference I see, is that Microsoft would be the 
  bad guy here, part of the establishment, rather than the good guy. 
Point is, quality was a big part of the issue.  There were various 
catastrophies in the book because of poor quality. Hence, I would think 
that Rand would not be on Microsoft's side, in spite of the fact that 
the AR institute is...

Eric M. Hopper wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:56, Erick Andrews wrote:
> 
>>More like asking a Pragmatist what Objectivists and Libertarians
>>actually are.
>>
>>I'm losing this...where's MS's relationships here?
>>
> 
> People who consider themselves pure Objectivists (like the people at the
> Ayn Rand institute) feel that Microsoft has done nothing wrong as they
> have not forced people to use their product at gunpoint.
> 
> It's helpful, in determining what to do about a particular evil, to
> figure out how the people who support it think.
> 
> Have fun (if at all possible),
> 


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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

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