Re: Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

Well, the alternative would be for Craig and his company to pay some
attention to the quality of their software, but that would cost some
serious money.

So, much more useful for them to divert attention from the genesis of
the whole problem: their OS; and let governments clean it up, all while,
naturally, making the barrier to entry for competitors to his company
much higher.

As long as you understand that the senior execs of US Publicly traded
companies parse Milton Friedman's famous dictum to suit their personal
(lack of) morality:

The full dictum is (their referring to the shareholders): "That
responsi-bility is to conduct the business in accordance with their
desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while
con-forming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in
law and those embodied in ethical custom." Milton Friedman, New York
Times Magazine, September 13, 1970

http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-soc-r
esp-business.html

Generally, they paraphrase that to be "maximize shareholder value",
sometimes "within the limits of the Law", by which they tend to mean
whatever you can get away with for a cost of lawsuit that is less than
the cost of doing the right thing.

You will note that Friedman had a much broader view: that they conform
to the basic rules of society " both those embodied in law and those
embodied in ethical custom."

However, you will find precious few captains of industry of the last 30
years operate on a principle more elevated than: "You'll be gone, I'll
be gone, I got mine".

Craig Mundie is just an apologist for his Uncle Fester lookalike boss:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/13/ballmer_is_fester_and_we/




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> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research
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> Enjoy!
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