On Wed, 2 May 2001, Dan Brian wrote: > Another snippet from the .NET whitepaper: > > <snip> > Everyone believes the Web will evolve, but for that evolution to be > truly empowering for developers, businesses, and consumers, a radical new > vision is needed. Microsoft's goal is to provide that vision and the > technology to make it a reality. > </snip> > > In other words, evolution in and of itself is not empowering. Without the > vision[tm], evolution is "deempowering". Well, strictly speaking, they only implied that, without their Vision[tm], evolution would be nonempowering...which is different than deempowering; things could just remain in a steady state. It's still a pretty arrogant claim, no matter which way you slice it. Dave