[geeks] Flicker users u in arms over MS acquisition...

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Brian Dunbar wrote:

>> Microsoft wants to be the sole supplier of computer software  
>> worldwide.
>> End of story.
>>
>
> When you put it like that ... well it's rather elegant: a business  
> doing
> what it does (maximi$e profit$) the most efficient way it can.

That is not the proper function of business.

Business is merely one tool of many for the operation of a civilization.

A business which focuses only on profit is a broken business.

It's not sustainable to operate that way, and it does a lot of  
unacceptable damage even if it were.



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Shannon Hendrix
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