On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: > > ahhhh Charlie, you are ever the optomist..... > > > > it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. > > > > > > ET > > You're such a ray of sunshine :-) > > Anne
Anne; He is that, isn't he? <g> Miark and ET; Pessimists may be correct more often but we optimists usually have more fun. :-) All; It's painfully obvious that the only thing that can be expected from this revolting situation is that Microsoft will continue to scratch the backs of their pet elected officials; and that those worthies will in turn join with the spin doctors in trying to make it seem there has been "useful progress" made in forcing MS to simulate the behavior of a good corporate citizen. Shortly thereafter MS will find a way to leverage their "right to innovation" (read marketing and creative lawyering) to squeeze more money out of the poor abused consumer for inferior software and technology. Smoke and mirrors deployed, shut up and pay. You know, Microsoft's standard way of doing business? I've always been aware of that. However; I'm also aware that those of us that are called "advocates for Open Source" still have a chance to win many of the small battles for the mind space that is the consumer market, and that any 'revolution' has to begin somewhere. Cost this week of being an "Optimist" has been twelve formerly blank CD-Rs, and a few hours of time. The reward to the "revolution" is the four new acquaintances we all have that we didn't last week. They may eventually be friends. :-) One tiny battle at a time people. It's easy to forget that whatever the decisions in the antitrust trial, people are still disgusted that the system is so rigged that entities such as Microsoft, and the directors of such entities, get treated differently than you or I or any private individual not a 'celebrity' would. When that disgust becomes advocacy for something else; and the corporation in question is "punished by the consumer" by losing even a portion of what they regard as their market, I consider it to be a good day. :-) Or a good week since I'll be hoping to make 3 new friends next week with three more "assisted installs." I don't mind spending the time and disks at all. Later; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org ...Saure really turns out to be an adept at the difficult art of papryomancy, the ability to prophesy through contemplating the way people roll reefers - the shape, the licking pattern, the wrinkles and folds or absence thereof in the paper. "You will soon be in love," sez Saure, "see, this line here." "It's long, isn't it? Does that mean --" "Length is usually intensity. Not time." -- Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_
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