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This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.

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#2214- Ayn Rand,LP,Packet Radi Message #2337
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 19, 1985 5:27 PM
To argue for regulations that prohibit the free interchange of information, and permit a small body of people to determine the actions of many, is in itself a revolting thought. Perhaps early radio WAS chaotic, but so is the home computer industry, and so is any new industry undergoing great…
#2214- Ayn Rand,LP,Packet Radi Message #2337
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 19, 1985 5:27 PM
To argue for regulations that prohibit the free interchange of information, and permit a small body of people to determine the actions of many, is in itself a revolting thought. Perhaps early radio WAS chaotic, but so is the home computer industry, and so is any new industry undergoing great…
#2082 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2116
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:54 PM
He's talking more about setting up a government subsidized net to transmit this data – and to compete with private businesses. Free enterprise can do it a lot cheaper – and CIS won't have to subsidize it's competition to the detriment of services here. For an example of what may…
#2082 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2116
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:54 PM
He's talking more about setting up a government subsidized net to transmit this data – and to compete with private businesses. Free enterprise can do it a lot cheaper – and CIS won't have to subsidize it's competition to the detriment of services here. For an example of what may…
#2037 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2112
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:50 PM
Actually, what you just said in an eariler msg pretty much confirmed what I always thought. I've always been uneasy about the fact that Libertarians have always dissassociated ethics from personal actions and governmental judgement (though in the latter case – go. had no ethics to begin with). It also…
#2037 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2112
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:50 PM
Actually, what you just said in an eariler msg pretty much confirmed what I always thought. I've always been uneasy about the fact that Libertarians have always dissassociated ethics from personal actions and governmental judgement (though in the latter case – go. had no ethics to begin with). It also…
#2037 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2112
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:50 PM
Actually, what you just said in an eariler msg pretty much confirmed what I always thought. I've always been uneasy about the fact that Libertarians have always dissassociated ethics from personal actions and governmental judgement (though in the latter case – go. had no ethics to begin with). It also…
#2037 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2112
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:50 PM
Actually, what you just said in an eariler msg pretty much confirmed what I always thought. I've always been uneasy about the fact that Libertarians have always dissassociated ethics from personal actions and governmental judgement (though in the latter case – go. had no ethics to begin with). It also…
#2036 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2111
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:44 PM
Hmmm… And I thought it was just a few bad apples! Yes… can you make any recommendations? (too bad – so many of them are pretty interested in Ayn too). As for 'socialist digital radio' – been thinking of starting some sort of organiation to wrk against it. Unfortunately -…
#2036 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2111
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:44 PM
Hmmm… And I thought it was just a few bad apples! Yes… can you make any recommendations? (too bad – so many of them are pretty interested in Ayn too). As for 'socialist digital radio' – been thinking of starting some sort of organiation to wrk against it. Unfortunately -…
#2036 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2111
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:44 PM
Hmmm… And I thought it was just a few bad apples! Yes… can you make any recommendations? (too bad – so many of them are pretty interested in Ayn too). As for 'socialist digital radio' – been thinking of starting some sort of organiation to work against it. Unfortunately -…
#2036 Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #2111
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 5:44 PM
Hmmm… And I thought it was just a few bad apples! Yes… can you make any recommendations? (too bad – so many of them are pretty interested in Ayn too). As for 'socialist digital radio' – been thinking of starting some sort of organiation to work against it. Unfortunately -…
#1992- SOFTWARE PIRACY Message #2011
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Forum Business December 16, 1985 6:49 PM
True… Asgard doesn't quite operate on the scale of EA, but we gross a few 100,000 a year selling software to TI people – which in this industry makes us bigger then maybe 4/5 of the companies out there. Our advertising costs have been quite minimal due to our policies…
#1992- SOFTWARE PIRACY Message #2011
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Forum Business December 16, 1985 6:49 PM
True… Asgard doesn't quite operate on the scale of EA, but we gross a few 100,000 a year selling software to TI people – which in this industry makes us bigger then maybe 4/5 of the companies out there. Our advertising costs have been quite minimal due to our policies…
#1992- SOFTWARE PIRACY Message #2011
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Forum Business December 16, 1985 6:49 PM
True… Asgard doesn't quite operate on the scale of EA, but we gross a few 100,000 a year selling software to TI people – which in this industry makes us bigger then maybe 4/5 of the companies out there. Our advertising costs have been quite minimal due to our policies…
#1992- SOFTWARE PIRACY Message #2011
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Forum Business December 16, 1985 6:49 PM
True… Asgard doesn't quite operate on the scale of EA, but we gross a few 100,000 a year selling software to TI people – which in this industry makes us bigger then maybe 4/5 of the companies out there. Our advertising costs have been quite minimal due to our policies…
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:38 PM
Right! – after you asked methat question I did a quick scan through my copy, and kicked myself a few times for not being able to answer such an obvious question. (though I'm no masochist) Ever read "For the New Intellectual", or "The Virtue of Selfishness"? A lot of ammunition…
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:38 PM
Right! – after you asked methat question I did a quick scan through my copy, and kicked myself a few times for not being able to answer such an obvious question. (though I'm no masochist) Ever read "For the New Intellectual", or "The Virtue of Selfishness"? A lot of ammunition…
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:38 PM
Right! – after you asked methat question I did a quick scan through my copy, and kicked myself a few times for not being able to answer such an obvious question. (though I'm no masochist) Ever read "For the New Intellectual", or "The Virtue of Selfishness"? A lot of ammunition…
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:38 PM
Right! – after you asked methat question I did a quick scan through my copy, and kicked myself a few times for not being able to answer such an obvious question. (though I'm no masochist) Ever read "For the New Intellectual", or "The Virtue of Selfishness"? A lot of ammunition…
#1834- #Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #1882
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 15, 1985 11:49 AM
Ah… John Galt (sweat…sweat) – Wasn't he one of the protaganists of ATLAS SHRUGGED? It's been years since I've read any of her fiction (and Atlas Shrugged was the first I read – once about 4 years ago). Been reading her "serious" (can she write otherwise??) books at my methodical…
#1834- #Lawyers, ethics & CP Message #1882
From: Chris Bobbitt Forum unknown · Software Developers December 15, 1985 11:49 AM
Ah… John Galt (sweat…sweat) – Wasn't he one of the protaganists of ATLAS SHRUGGED? It's been years since I've read any of her fiction (and Atlas Shrugged was the first I read – once about 4 years ago). Been reading her "serious" (can she write otherwise??) books at my methodical…