On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:22:45 -0500, Wayne Godfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh really? That's a laugh. All Microsoft is interested in is sticking a very > large hose directly into your wallet to suck as much cash out as possible. > This is the 8000-pound gorilla who believes in web standards as long as > those standards are theirs. In fact, that's the corporate philosophy across > the board and now they're heading into your living room! Can't wait to see > what havoc they reek there.
Quoth Neal Stephenson: "Now that the Third Rail has been firmly grasped, it is worth reviewing some basic facts here: like any other publicly traded, for-profit corporation, Microsoft has, in effect, borrowed a bunch of money from some people (its stockholders) in order to be in the bit business. As an officer of that corporation, Bill Gates has one responsibility only, which is to maximize return on investment. He has done this incredibly well. Any actions taken in the world by Microsoft-any software released by them, for example--are basically epiphenomena, which can't be interpreted or understood except insofar as they reflect Bill Gates's execution of his one and only responsibility."[1] /me not defending them, just making sure that their actions are viewed in the proper context. [1] See http://cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
