1. "make them work for it" (Duncan) 2. You can't prevent them from getting it 3. sell it to them just the same as any other customer 4. sell it to those who can afford it 5. actively pursue them as customers 6. as cooperative sellers, fill out their mandatory forms, tell them your race and gender, and patiently wait longer than usual to get payment 7. maintain a pro-active business relationship with them as a large-volume provider of product and updates for many of their departments and world-wide locations 8. agree to their limits on production and distribution 9. negotiate on backdoors and modifications 10. Happy Cpunk Fun Court is Not Amused You have to know where you can exert influence over quality, and where you want to draw the line against acquiescensce, in order to maintain consistency with your purported philosophy. The prospect for the future is, that either everyone must be made equally weak, or everyone must be allowed to become equally strong. If progress and virtue is in better tools, then eliminating their availability is not an option (although creating tools cannot be enforced, as it requires an intellect and creativity which it is not yet possible to coerce into existence). But providing advanced and useful tools ("giving them the fire") seems to call for a control of consequences which is beyond the humanly possible: they may just end up burning themselves up with it. Why did we, everybody, get bestowed with brains - such potential for power, yet so little wisdom to use it; a little knowledge is such a dangerous thing. .. Blanc
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