(fax) "Doing nothing?"

[Brian Frick]

The general attitude that everyone has the right to anything ever  
produced is starting to wear thin on me.  No one has the right to  
anything that he himself hasn't created.  We all have the opportunity  
to buy or sell or trade.  But for god's sake, please stop staking a  
claim on other people's creativity.  What someone chooses to charge,  
require, or otherwise ask for, is up to him.  Again, and I've said  
this before, it's up to YOU the consumer to make a wise decision.

"Screwing the consumer" is a ridiculous argument.  Anyone with half a  
brain can figure out if something is a good deal or not.  And as  
such, can make a determination as to whether it's in his best  
interest to pay for it.  The only people screwing the consumers are  
the very consumers themselves -- the ones who make uneducated decisions.

Anyway, this conversation is now entirely off-topic and far too  
political for my taste, and I'm sure enough other people on here are  
similarly done with it.  This is my last post on the matter, period.


On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Trevor Cordes wrote:

> On  3 Mar, Dave Gilliss wrote:
>> I was in "the industry" also and I'm guessing that you are down in  
>> the
>> trenches (in the server room) and not part of the accounting/ 
>> budgeting
>
> With what I do, I see it from both sides, actually.
>
>> you're going to have to have a lot of hardware and utility  
>> redundancy,
>> massive data storage, stable power, geographically distributed  
>> datacenters,
>> and backups, etc.  this ain't no basement project. If it was there  
>> would be
>
> So add on some more $3M chunks.  It still does not add to $225 + 10%.
>
>> Also, you may want to check out Steve Job's salary. I know that  
>> since he
>> returned he hasn't gotten a salary from apple, zero, nadda, zip.  
>> He may get
>
> This is such bull crap.  Read some business magazines someday; watch
> some CNBC.  The $1 salary for CEO's has been proven to be such a scam.
> Between their stock options, bonuses and perks, they still make  
> hundreds
> of millions.  Just because their on-the-record "salary" is $1 means
> nothing.  Don't delude yourself.  But again, I'm not against execs
> making zillions: I'm against people being ignorant of it and thinking
> guys like Jobs are being altruistic or something, and I'm against the
> screwing of the consumer which is inherent in $10 album downloads and
> $25 CD's.
>
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