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At 03:24 PM 2/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
You have not described any coercive act by anybody.
You make choices about whether you are willing to do business with me, or
anybody else, and under what circumstances.
I make choices about whether I'm willing to do business with you, or
anybody else, and under what circumstances.
BeOS makes choices about whether they are willing to do business with you
or me, or anybody else, and under what circumstances.
Dell makes choices about whether they are willing to do business with you
or me, or anybody else, and under what circumstances.
Microsoft makes choices about whether they are willing to do business with
you or me, or anybody else, and under what circumstances.
If two people and/or companies who might do business are not BOTH willing,
then that particular business will not be conducted. Where is the
coercion in any of this?
Nowhere.
On the way back to your car after the next PLUG meeting, a stranger, larger
than you, appearing to have a gun confronts you and give you the choice
"your money or your life". You "freely exercise" the choice he has given
you and you chose to give him your money, which he takes and runs away.
Have you been coerced or did you "make a choice"? Where do YOU draw the line?
Art
PS Are you having fun with the absurd extreme to which you have taken this
argument, while we take your bait, or do you really believe this nonsense?
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