[Am-info] Ayn Rand Institute?

[John J. Urbaniak]

Geoffrey wrote:

> 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.

Based on that article written by Onkar Ghate, senior fellow at the Ayn Rand
Institute, I'd suggest that those nuts have completely hijacked Rand's
philosophy and perverted it to mean that "Microsoft is big, therefore
Microsoft is virtuous."

John


>
>
> 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),
> >
>
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey           esoteric@3times25.net
>
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
>
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