Bill Gates and I Have the Same Property

Running Head : BILL GATES

Bill Gates and I Have the Same Property

Bill Gates and I Have the Same Property

The government does not have the freedom to interfere into the property of an owner and the owner 's right to exercise power on the property This statement may be evaluated with the following example

An anti-trust action was passed against Microsoft Corporation by the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department who challenged that the company cannot make it mandatory on customers to install the internet browser of Microsoft while

installing the Microsoft 95 operating system . The Government also upheld the notion that it is not necessary for consumers to use one product of a company simultaneously when another product is installed . The court ed the separation of Microsoft 95 and Internet explorer . In continuation to this verdict , the Assistant Attorney General further demanded the unusual freedom to scrutinise all future products of Microsoft Corporation to check their marketing strategy . Microsoft retaliated that if additional facilities in the computer indicate unfair trade practice , the manufacture of computer itself would be like posing threat to the manufacturers of products like calculator , typewriter and the like . Though the Assistant Attorney General justified that the anti trust motion is aimed to stimulate innovation and competition there were several obstacles to substantiate its stand to stop Microsoft from gaining market control (Labaton , 1997

According to Bill Gates , the separation of the operating system and the browser would mean producing products with lesser value and reducing the demand for the operating system in the market despite enhancing the quality (Thibodeau , 2008

In the Second Treatise of Government , John Locke justifies that man can have a right on property based on the amount of work he has done to transform the resources provided by God . The amount of work done by a person enables him to partition the common resources provided by God and own a part of it by himself . Thus private ownership of property is related to the amount of work done by man . The spoilage proviso limits the amount of resources a man can reserve when the resource is wasted and the sufficiency proviso limits the amount of resources to be owned and the balance to be left with the nature for others . And when there are no more resources available , people are required to work on the available resources for sustenance . According to Locke , when individuals own resources or land , they take better care of it rather than when the land is not owned by anyone . When land is owned the productivity is estimated a ten times its actual value and it will pave way for the betterment of life . Here labor is given more importance than on resources . When a person works on a resource it is automatically transformed into the workers property . It is the duty of the government to protect the right of a person towards a property (Meinhardt , 2007

James Madison has defined the ownership and rights...