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Re:As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Mak... by celoyd on Saturday May 15, 2010 @05:21PM (#1350682)
This is why my second premise is important. The person who sold it to you and unfairly prevented others from selling you a better one does, arguably, owe you something.

I’m not saying Gates owes us all a perfect operating system. But by doing a worse job than he could and distorting the market (if you agree to both of those), he screwed up.

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Re:As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Mak... by qq66 on Sunday May 16, 2010 @03:20AM (#1351593)
Your argument seems to imply that if someone does design a perfect operating system, it's OK to distort the market to make it successful.
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Re:As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Mak... by bluedanieru on Sunday May 16, 2010 @11:51AM (#1352184)
Well, if there is a perfect operating system out there and some inefficiency in the market is preventing it from being widely adopted, then yeah it's hard to argue against distorting the market to make it successful. The market is a tool, after all, not an end in itself.
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