From: "George A. Gleason"
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.