Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:05:31 -0800 From: "John Purser" <johnmpurser@home.com> To: "'J McKitrick'" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: amazon email response Message-ID: <001001bf95b3$2a24c280$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000324163253.J89615@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Big is all I've got against them really. I understand the economic forces that are collapsing and consolidating one market after another I just don't like it on a personal level. So I vote my economic $.02 by eating at the local restaurant instead of Macdonald's, I wear New Balance shoes (Good web site, good shoes, made in America) instead of Nike's, and I try to avoid "The Big National Guy" if there's a decent smaller alternative. Take operating systems for example... I'm not saying big is necessarily evil by definition. For instance in a world with as much malnourishment and outright starvation as we have I have a few problems with advocating preserving the family farm at the expense of the economies of scale that consolidation can bring. Some things are just sad, not bad. On the other hand as someone who grew up not only in the Southern US but in Appalachia I tend to be innately suspicious of anything that gets too big and when you cap that off by telling me I have no choice I tend to lay my ears back and get just a tad reactionary! As my buddy Merle says "You're walking on the fighting side of me!" FWIW John Purser *********************************************************************** Currently boycotting Amazon.com To find out why visit: http://perl.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/amazon_patent.comments.pl For an alternative visit: http://www.powells.com/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of J McKitrick Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 8:33 AM To: John Purser Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amazon email response What's wrong with barnes and noble, other than being big? Or maybe Buy.com? I haven't checked either out. jm -- -------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org The spice must flow.... -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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