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Okay, let's break this down, to finally find enlightement, shall we?
----- Original Message -----
From: <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: DBC Microsoft Mentality
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> -- Tradergirl (the prolific) wrote:
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> > ... See, that's what's great about Open Source,
> > Linux, and Free Software -- the ability to exchange
> > unhindered. The true spirit of trading incarnate.
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> Eh? The true spirit of trading is casting lots? You throw in what you
want to throw in and *maybe* someone will throw in something useful to >you?
That is not trading, that is altruism. Trading is exchanging *value for
value* - I give you this thing of value, directly in exchange for that
>thing of value. You have nothing of value to exchange? Then you can't
*trade*.
No it is not altruism, it is 'market making' in its most fundamental form.
I am no altruist, if anything, I am a rebel spirit, a tigeress who likes to
claw at the bad guys out there, as I climb to the top. Market Making? Yes,
if I can use my skills to help release an open source approach to technical
analysis with like minds, it introduces technical analysis to the market
place in a more efficient manner. It can thus educate people cheaply (ie.
free downloads as opposed to $2495 + $300 a month, and $430 startup; to see
if they are any good), more people involved, more using technical analysis,
then it re-inforces the marketplaces movements even more. But that's not
why we do these things, we do them to see if they can be done, to create
value for the marketplace, and the religion of technical analysis in
general. I do not want to make money off traders before they hit the
market, I want to give them a good tennis raquet, some nice Nike's, and some
instructions before we got at it.
Now maybe I would have a different mentality, but I don't see *value for
value*, I see usurping for crap out there. Everything from ASCTrend, to how
Omega handled the transition to TS2, to how DBC gives customers these nice
little phone calls. Personally, I would like to all see them eliminated,
producing the greatest value for the trading community when it wouldn't be
illegal to trade .ELA's between us, or the likes. I am talking hyper growth
here. This is the information age, information is mean to be free. it is
the natural evolution that information seeks the path of least resistence.
> What is it that "hinders" your exchange of code today? How does
Microsoft, the greatest producer of value that has ever existed, hinder your
>ability to exchange anything?
Microsoft was the greatest producer of value. The greatest on the horizons
are Linux. If you have an extra machine, I'll get you a CD of Linux sent to
you. You'll stick it in your CD, and boot. 30 minutes later you will have
a graphical networking system, with Star Office (Microsoft Office clone from
Sun), Netscape 4.72 128bit, a webserver (http:// anytime we want guys, right
to our machines, our DSL lines, no need for private hosting), a built in FTP
site right into the machine (upon booting, no need to configure), the
ability to have 300 users sign into your system's FTP since it is multiuser
and multitasking (can be done if you use Cable or DSL), all software is
free, and there is nothing to buy, yet you get all this and more. This is
value. Microsoft is value for a higher price tag. Is Windows the future?
No it isn't. The National Science Foundation just made the biggest Super
Computer in the world, guess what it is running? Linux. Guess what my
Pentium3 is running? Linux. Ask yourself this... could WindowsNT power
that super computer at the National Science Foundation? Nope.
Why? Because Microsoft offers value in a specific set of guidelines. Linux
being open, can spread rapidly unhindered by capitalism at its lowest
levels. It doesn't see itself as necessary to make money, it sees itself as
a means to open up society to a new level of information and sharing. This
thus creates a stronger economy, and brings tools for people to participate
that once could not enter, thus the market gets larger. If you still think
I am a nut case, just realize 83% of the HTTP sites you go to are some
varient of Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, etc. FREE.
> What's that? You think that Microsoft's programmers should give away
their work? And do you believe in slavery? Do you believe in private
>property? Do you believe in justice (getting what you earn)?
I believe copyrights are mostly a sham. I think once humanity gets over its
'control issues', we'll improve. Look at the internet... it is scalable
information going everywhere, and has transformed the world in a few years.
However, if everyone had (C)'s on their pages, and you had to PAY to see
pages with (C)'s, it would be a nightmare. The freedom that is upon us is
great. Do I believe in slavery? Does Microsoft? Does DBC? You know, I
sometimes feel like a slave to them. I pay a fee, to be able to interact in
their world. What I am talking about is the end of slavery, it is justice
itself.
I sometimes ask myself, if the IRS believes in slavery. I mean, here I am
here, and doing my thing, and they want to clip off 40% of everything I
produce. So am I 40% enslaved, and 60% free? Yes, and if I had a chance to
hack into the IRS, and format their database I would.
There you have it, I'm a bad bad bad girl.
But still sort of cool, don't you think?
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