Comments on: Google vs. YahooSoft http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/ The FreedomWorks blog dedicated to lower taxes and more freedom. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:44:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Leonardo http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75581 Leonardo Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:22:16 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75581 It might be called regulatory capture these days, but crony capitalism has been around since the beginning of times pretty much. That is the fastest way to make money, get your friends at government to protect your business model. Just ask the sugar industry for instance or the telecom carriers, or the pharmaceutical companies, or cable operators or the music and movie industry, or… (does this list have an end ?) It might be called regulatory capture these days, but crony capitalism has been around since the beginning of times pretty much.

That is the fastest way to make money, get your friends at government to protect your business model. Just ask the sugar industry for instance or the telecom carriers, or the pharmaceutical companies, or cable operators or the music and movie industry, or… (does this list have an end ?)

]]> By: Sickle http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75493 Sickle Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:52:24 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75493 Didn't seem to bother you guys in Oregon two years ago, though. FW bankrolled a ballot measure that would have regulated what attorneys could charge for contingency fees. Not necessarily a bad idea, but you guys were still advocating regulation, pure and simple. Since your position is that government regulation is bad no matter what, I wonder how you guys justify your actions in Oregon in 2006 and square them with your opinions here. Didn’t seem to bother you guys in Oregon two years ago, though. FW bankrolled a ballot measure that would have regulated what attorneys could charge for contingency fees. Not necessarily a bad idea, but you guys were still advocating regulation, pure and simple. Since your position is that government regulation is bad no matter what, I wonder how you guys justify your actions in Oregon in 2006 and square them with your opinions here.

]]> By: Peter Suderman http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75471 Peter Suderman Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:18:54 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75471 It's unfortunate, but it's simply the way a lot of modern business works. Build a business model that works, then try to get the government to protect that business model through rules and regulations. It's called regulatory capture, and it's depressingly common these days (Tim Carney wrote a whole book about it: "The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money." Highly recommended.) It’s unfortunate, but it’s simply the way a lot of modern business works. Build a business model that works, then try to get the government to protect that business model through rules and regulations. It’s called regulatory capture, and it’s depressingly common these days (Tim Carney wrote a whole book about it: “The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money.” Highly recommended.)

]]> By: Trey http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75468 Trey Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:39:37 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/02/04/google-vs-yahoosoft/#comment-75468 I don't really understand the entrepreneurs/executives at Google and Microsoft who took advantage of the benefits of the free market and create huge successful companies, but lobby for anti-free market policies that could hurt everything they've built. I don’t really understand the entrepreneurs/executives at Google and Microsoft who took advantage of the benefits of the free market and create huge successful companies, but lobby for anti-free market policies that could hurt everything they’ve built.

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