On 10/28/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob La Quey wrote: > > On 10/28/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Bob La Quey wrote: > >>> And precisely how do you do that? The oligharchic power of corporations > >>> to limit choice is a reality in many arenas. > >> Sure but some of us resist it FAR more successfully than others. > > > > I am far from sure that is true. > > I think I do reasonably well for myself. As do a lot of my obstinate and > troublemaking KPLUG colleagues.
That part I agree with. > > Yep, and Microsoft just rolls out Vista. My point is that > > while occasionaly an exceptional individual may carve out > > some choice for themselves providing that choice for others > > is a whole lot harder. > > Sure, and we keep not using it. Standard Oil's day came. Carnegie > Steel's day came. AT&T's day came. Microsoft's day will come too. Things > are changing. And the Linux folk are helping the change along. Just > because the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way off doesn't > mean we should stop hiking towards it. Right. So now we have Google replacing Microsoft. I went to the Amazon Web Services seminar downtown Thursday. I talked with a local fellow Steve Bjorg, who is producing an Open Source Wiki; See http://www.mindtouch.com/ The wiki has .NET and mono at its core. Prior to starting mindtouch he worked with the top R&D guys at Microsoft. I said to Steve, "Microsoft is like a huge mountain, but it is in our rear view mirror. Nobody is looking that way any more." He demurred, "$18 Billion cash on hand and XBox ... " So will Google be a lot better. Maybe maybe not. My perspective on this is a little like my perspective on race relations. Once I thought, "We will solve this problem." Now I thing all generations will have to fight this problem. I admire the fighters. I do not expect victory. I expect to fight forever. The fight is worth fighting. Some sad facts are deeply rooted in our species and perhaps even in the nature of economic realities. See Pareto, et. seq. Good exchange. So it goes, BobLQ > >> Freedom isn't free either. > > > > And many people don't want it and won't pay for it. > > Those people are welcome to rot in a prison of their own making. > > -- > Tracy R Reed Read my blog at http://ultraviolet.org > Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD > Non-GPG signed mail gets read only if I can find it among the spam. > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
