RE: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

> It shows the pointlessness of the Cypherpunks list when a long-time 
> subscriber like William Geiger can fall for the socialist/communalist 
> notion that Microsoft must be forced by men with guns to deal with 
> its property the way the men with guns want it to.

No, it shows the pointlessness of ideology as a substitute for
thought.

It is as easy to become a trendy libertarian today as it was to
become a trendy communist in the 70s. The liturgy is relatively
small and there is this BIG IDEA that produces solutions to
every single problem.


                Phill