Re: [PLUG] side perspective on outsourcing

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Wayne Dawson:
> Legislation doesn't allow things.  It attempts to either (a) prohibit or (b) mandate.

A nice simplistic answer which ignores the effects of tax laws, the 
effect of regulations in limiting what outsiders can do to affect the 
regulated entity (consider electricity, and natural gas companies for 
example) and what happens in the real world. Linux and the *BSDs could 
not exist without laws, but neither could Microsoft.  Without traffic 
laws, you don't get working roads either.  Sadly, the pretense that laws 
only prohibit or mandate is just that a pretense that ignores what laws 
actually do.

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