On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:00 am, you wrote: > > Thoughts? Me too. Business owner. No more M$.
I read that in the 1960s, the US gov mandated that each time a computer was purchased, a different vendor was picked. Pretty soon, there were lot's of computers that could not talk to each other. Then a fellow by the name of J.C.R. Licklider decided that computers should be able to communicate regardless of the manufacturer. Then came ARPAnet followed by DARPA who funded UCB from which sprang sockets. You know the rest. Summary: Diversity is a good thing. Because of it we have the Internet and WWW and email. M$ is one of the evil axis powers lulling people into stupidity. The US and State govenments should mandate the use of freely available software whenever a reasonable alternative exists. Plenty exist today. Paying for WIndows and Office products with my tax dollars must stop. Mike Mueller
