From: "George A. Gleason" <gg@well.sf.ca.us>
I'm not so sure that all this Bidzos Biz is as evil as it may sound. Consider the management have an obligation to the stockholders to make money. Now here is a huge market. Do they turn it down on the basis of political rectitude...?
I don't run my life based on a spreadsheet. There are plenty of very profitable things I could do that I don't because I think they're scummy. The makers of napalm didn't take "political rectitude" into account either; nor did those bastards (Dow Corning?) who knew the truth about breast implants but hid it to protect their bottom line. Sorry, but I find this attitude extremely disturbing.
Are we seriously expecting that Bidzos will refrain from tapping into this market, and refrain from charging a cent for an RSA-PGP thing...? Oh, okay, so he's supposed to go into poverty to prove his ethics. Oh, I see. Gee whiz, I thought I was the most socialistic of anyone on this list.
-gg
I'm not expecting anything of the kind. I'm not a capitalist, so it's not my job to work out these contradictions. --Dave.