Is Jobs the New Gates?

the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

Hermann Goering

Tue, 06/26/2007 - 7:05am

Check out what Act for Change has to say here.

Jobs is releasing the iPhone configured so that it won't work, except on AT&T.

One of the most interesting things to me about the idea of a free market is that the very people who are in favor of free markets use that freedom to make the market as unfree as possible.

The idea is that free competition forces everyone to do a better job. The more companies competing to offer the same services, the better service quality they have to provide, and the lower the cost becomes.

But what do companies do with this "freedom"? They truncate it as soon as possible, by signing exclusive deals, and doing anything else they can to freeze the consumer out of any free market advantages.

I'd really be interested in meeting a capitalist who really believed in the free market—enough to refuse exclusive contracts, or anything else which might give them, or any other company a monopoly on anything but their own, particular version of their product.

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