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I have my complaints against microsoft, but being massively profitable or holding a majority market share should not be enough to warrant penalties against the company. The only people to put forth such ridiculous claims are those who want to tax income or sales. The real measure of a company's man...

Most stuff is obvious after the fact. And thus, along with throwing around your own red herrings like "fair", you evade the issue. if you think MS is worth more to you than it is to Bill Gates there is the NYSE. Yeah guys like Chuck Moore are just full of hot air because they could have bought out ...

"Obviousness" (more precisely "obvious to someone skilled in the art") is a key disqualifier for patent protection. Do you disagree with this criteria? Most stuff is obvious after the fact. And thus, along with throwing around your own red herrings like "fair", you evade the issue. if you think MS ...

What we need is a government bureau to decide who is doing good and who isn't. And since Gates is so obviously evil the government can take all his money. Sounds good to me. What is my cut? If there is a problem with intellectual property law, does that mean Obama must appoint an "IP Czar" presidin...

It is only rent seeking when the government makes you buy. Quoting wikipedia : In economics, rent seeking occurs when an individual, organization or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic and/or legal environment rather than by trade and production of wealth. The term comes from the ...

"Microsoft had licensed GUI elements from Xerox, including a desktop-style interface used on the Xerox 8010,the commercial version of the Alto. (Apple had also licensed the GUI from Xerox for $100 million in Apple stock.)" Sculley was shocked at how much Windows 2.0 resembled the Macintosh, and he ...

So why didn't Apple sue? Apple did sue. They lost. http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/Windows_2.htm Google search is a very useful tool. From TFA: "Bill Gates claimed that Apple had taken ideas from the graphical user interface developed by Xerox for Xerox's Alto and Star computers." ...

The fact that Apple Inc. Hired Microsoft Inc. to do software development for the Mac operating system, and Shortly thereafter Microsoft releases "Windows" is some evidence that it did. So why didn't Apple sue? The planets weren't in proper alignment. Actually, I was in communication with Larry Tesl...

What is to prevent the King from winding up with all the property in a sufficiently long down turn where profits are below tax rates? Or in the case you suggest the government winds up owning everything. Doesn't happen in my proposal for the simple reason that a downturn results in lowered in place...

The potential financial consequence of the military obligations it saddled him with drove his subsequent pursuit of tax revenues. You are referring, of course, to the original reason I brought up Henry VII as an exemplar: His indirect taxation of net assets resulting from his directly taxing retain...

alexjrgreen wrote:The Spanish treasury funded Henry Tudor's successful bid for the throne, making him little more than a puppet (they still have the receipts).

I suppose George Washington was little more than a puppet of the French then.

How can a King be outside nature? In fact Kings are traditional. A king is a head of state. A state is a political association (aka, Lockean "social contract") with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population, that "(successfully) claims a monopoly on the legitimate u...

Henry VII levied a tax on the retainers of his baronage and produced the national wealth that carried his wasteful progeny for generations. He also earned the hatred of the baronage as much as the loyalty of his growing yeoman class. His primary failure was inadequate rearing of his son, Henry. Hen...

a household exceeds the level of property a head of household would self-defend in "the state of nature" I'm the king. I can hire retainers. You are my serfs. You will obey. Henry VII levied a tax on the retainers of his baronage and produced the national wealth that carried his wasteful progeny fo...

And jb the way unfairness is always handled is by theft. Always. Unless murder is more convenient. Because there is no conceivable set of laws that can overcome natural variation of talent. Goedel is worth a bit of study here. I don't think I used the word "fair" or "unfair" anywhere. If you read w...