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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:20:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Low writes:
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> > > > I'm not trying to be difficult here, per se. I just don't get most of the
> > > > "obvious" arguments as being at all obvious, or even true, and I think a
> > > > healthy dose of "why"-ing might actually work to bring you and others to
> > > > wonder about it too. Besides, I'm entitled to a little "why"-ing don't you
> > > > think? Goodness knows I got enough of it from others.
> > > >
> > > > So examine your premises. Why is dominance (without coercion) bad, per se?
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> > > I suspect that has a lot to do with my perspective -- I tend to see coercion
> > > as implicit in dominance, at least in practise.
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> > You're going to have to show that, I think. It's not at all obvious to me
> > that a superior product that everyone wants is at all coercive.
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> I meant much more generally as a philosophical principle, though I suspect
> you're conflating the superiority of MS product (non-coercive) with the
> superiority of MS business tactics (coercive). More on this after I've done
> some more reading.
Including things like this:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/25/1824206&mode=nocomment
ROSCO
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