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Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?
scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of Linux, according to this article by Robert Cringely of PBS." If Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free software .. couldn't they?
You mean, like OS X?
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I realise this is getting slightly off the topic at hand, but....
No, you may not reccomend Ayn Rand. I may as well reccomend Chomsky to you. They are both fairly extreme in their views and not likely to find either of us on middle ground.
So, remove the FDIC, that's a socialist control. Remove any tax on corporations (I mean its not like any of the big one's pay taxes now anyway...). Institute a flat rate tax. The rich will continue to get richer and the poor will continue to fall. Hardly seems like an ideal world...
Get rid of those Canadian's pesky social health care idea (even though in ever poll conducted, over 50% of questioned American's have expressed a want of government funded health care. Politicians still call such a proposition 'political suicide').
Remember, with social security they never actually save any money. What use is the government putting money in a bank which could otherwise be in circulation. Actually saving notes for social security would harm the economy. Rather, the government writes itself handy little IOU's (I Owe Me 10 Billion...). In this way, present contributions are always paying past contributors out (and the system works wonderfully until you get too many people wanting money and not enough workers supplying it).
Heck, the only reason we have avoided depressions greater then "the big one" is because of socialist controls and government bail outs.
Pure capitalism would mean there wouldn't be any airlines in bussiness from America right now. Pure capitalism would be when Johnny gets sick and mom can't pay, johnny dies. Pure capitalism would not have government funded schools or utilities, and we all know how well deregulation has worked....