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Old 12-17-2007, 05:40 PM   #44
mrkai
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Damn you, Igor. I want to start HERE :)

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Originally Posted by igorsk View Post
Actually Eric Flint covered a lot of what we're discussing here, including exact numbers. I highly recommend his "Salvos Against Big Brother" (start at the bottom).
http://baens-universe.com/authors/Eric_Flint
I'm reading them now, bottom up as you suggested, but so far they aren't interesting to me yet.

Not because they lack insight. I'm one of those weird and rare people that doesn't need to read things that confirm what I believe, so the "socio-political" articles thus far seem to be "preaching to the choir" as it were.

As I also run a business, the thoughts, theories and facts about the business logic are more interesting to me, as well as the rebuttal of them, because I think they would be a more convincing argument, a "better sell" to those opposed to such business ideas because while its a "harder reality" is a "softer sell" because its one thing to call your opponent misinformed, or even misguided (which is a little harsher) but another entirely to call them "corrupt" or just plain "evil" and it make them defensive instead of engaged.

So far what I've read kind of reminds me of the Stallman Free Software Approach as opposed to the Raymond one. You don't proselytize to business Stallman style...that is how you speak to the converted

Reading on, nonetheless.
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