Re: How to generate a Windows style license key

From: Luc The Perverse (sll_noSpamlicious_z_XXX_m_at_cc.usu.edu)
Date: 10/01/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 10:56:24 -0600

"David Eather" <eather@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
news:433e5302@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> Luc The Perverse wrote:
>> <posting@big-numbers.com> wrote in message
>> news:1127999196.630867.143060@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>> I also think is it a crime if you can duplicate your software 10
>>> billion times and sell it to 10 billion customers over and over again
>>> for the SAME PRICE. (Microsoft$) (The question arises should there
>>> be a legal limit to success?)
>>
>>
>> In favor of communism?
>
> Let me quote from the father of capitalist though (Adam Smith "An Inquiry
> Into The Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations) - "the purpose of business is to
> serve the public good".
>
> A company that refuses to behave like a good cooperate citizen needs to be
> regulated and if it still flouts the law it should be broken up or shut
> down and the directors made accountable.

All big businesses are going to do whatever they can to promote their
product and corner the market.

They only get in trouble if they succeed.

Microsoft is a huge cash cow and employs many people. People all over the
world pay a US company for an OS. You are saying that should end . . .
because they charge the same price to sell to billions of people?

It seems to me you are ignoring the Laffer curve concept by proposing we
implement a taxation such that the tax rate is (1-e^(-a * I)) where a is
some positive constant and I is the amount of revenue a company is
generating. (Perhaps this is not exactly what you were saying, but the
general idea would be the same.)

It violates my intuition - but I don't claim to be an economist.

I don't think we should cut off people's toes if they run miles too fast, or
hit someone in the head if they are too smart until they have about a 120
IQ. And I certainly don't think we should limit the amount of money an
individual or corporation can make. It is part of our American way.
Russia has effectively found a way to limit people's success. Make too much
money - and you go to jail, for the rest of your life :) No thank you. 

-- 
"Wise men talk because they have something to
say; fools talk because they have to say something." - Plato

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