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Support SCO - Stop other un-American activity

Posted Feb 28, 2004 9:14 UTC (Sat) by jimmo (guest, #19856)
Parent article: USENIX Letter to Congress Refuting SCO's Letter (Groklaw)

Each time the Red Cross distributates a blanket to a hurricane victim or CARE
provides a bowl of rice to a starving child it "displaces or pre-empts a sale ". Thus
both of these organization are theats to the blanket and food industry and should
be immediately outlawed. Helping people by providing something for free
because you want to is bad for economy and un-American. Thanks for pointing
that out to us, Mr. McBride.

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Bad analogy

Posted Feb 28, 2004 18:26 UTC (Sat) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123) [Link]

That's a bad analogy. When the Red Cross distributes blankets, it doesn't hurt the blanket industry. The Red Cross isn't creating blankets out of thin air: someone had to purchase the blanket in the first place.

This is not to say that SCO's argument is valid, merely that this counterargument by analogy isn't an effective one.