Re: "RSA sells out" hue and cry (fwd)

[dmandl@lehman.com (David Mandl)]

> 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.