On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:47:47 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:

But Edison also did not lobby for legislation that required all other
forms of light to be replaced with his electric lights--he was content
to let the market take its course.

You're wasting your time - they'll never grasp the idea. Apparently the
state of business ethics is such nowadays that anything goes - even
government coercion. Ethanol anyone?

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Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw