[PLUG] [OT] Who is John Galt?

[david pool]

Ken Barber wrote:

>This is the very kind of world that Ayn Rand warned against half a 
>century ago in her novels "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" 
>and now it's coming to pass in the high-tech sector.
>

In Atlas Shrugged, the parasitic leech was government attaching itself 
to business to stiffle innovation. OSS is still innovating and there are 
lots of businesses (Merrill Lynch, Amazon, Dreamworks etc.) who are 
using OSS to compete. It's not just about marketing, Businesses will 
wake up and smell the coffee when they realize another company is eating 
their lunch by using better cheaper software. It wasn't marketing that 
woke Detroit up to TQM, it was the Japanese.

><snip>
><sigh>  Oh, what's the use?  Who is John Galt?
>
He was a guy who'd show up out of the blue and ask you if you wanted to 
go off and build something better. Kind of like a lurker I suppose.

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