doesn't need to result in an optimum. Behavior of companies oriented for their
maximal profit causes negative devastating nature, social tensions, devastating
democracy, even criminal overthrowing legally elected governments, murdering
"inconvenient" politicians, mass corruption of politics, journalists and everybody
who agrees to sell their influences to public opinion, even the wars initiated for
fabricated reasons like "spreading the good and democracy" by means of shame-
less lies in UN or mass murders and genocide done by the terrorists painted with
"mendacious colors" of so called "refugees," corrupting snipers for shooting the
demonstrating people of the both sides etc. Totally wrong !
On 2018-10-28 at 23:56:45 ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 10/28/18 10:18 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 22:01 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> The reality is, Red Hat is a publicly traded company and there was
> >> always a very good chance a big fish was going to come eat it,
> >> because it was doing well. Anyway, the ultimate decision now is up to
> >> Red Hat shareholders. Why would they say no though? They bought the
> >> stock to make money, this is their big pay day.
> >
> > Ultimately, that's the horrible thing about capitalism. Things only
> > exist for monetary reasons, they don't really exist to do what the
> > product is for.
> >
> > And you can say it about anything. e.g. The commercial phone companies
> > don't exist for people to be able to communicate (what their customers
> > consider their primary purpose to be). They're there to make money and
> > it really doesn't care how well the communications aspect of it works.
>
> "Capitalism" is an insult term made up by Marxists to describe the Free
> Market, which is "the free and open exchange of goods and services
> between consenting parties". Under the Free Market, to meet your
> own needs, you must meet the the needs of your customers.
>
> Your description of communications customers only caring about money
> falls apart. If the service stinks, folks go elsewhere. As a
> small businessman, I can tell you that if I do not meet the needs
> of my customers, I STARVE. I live it and breath it. I am only
> rewarded for meeting my customers needs.
>
> Red Hat has every right to sell itself to IBM, as Lands' End had every
> right to sell itself to Sears. And I have every right to look elsewhere
> for someone else that will meet my needs.
>
> I hope Fedora survives this. If not, someone else will pick up
> the slack.
+1
--
Erik
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