You, brian j. callahan, wrote:
>Don asks:
>>Did Bill Gates build Microsoft without using the overarching coercive
>>power of the state?
>
>Well, for a start, there's copyright law.
Which Apple correctly says Gates flouted.
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Tresy Kilbourne, Seattle WA
"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't
betray it I'd be ashamed of myself." --Noam Chomsky, responding to an
accusation of betrayal by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.