-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 1/1/99 3:22:41 AM, you wrote:
>After all they have these kiosks in France and Indonesia so putting such
>a system into place would be a piece of cake for a billionaire/computer
>"expert" like Perot. Or is he as phoney as Bill Gates who got lucky, and
>rich from an OS like Windows while a give-away (freeware) like Linux is
>vastly superior? So much for the integrity of "US capitalism".
Yes indeedily-do. Corporatization was the worst thing to ever happen to
software and computing in general, and it happened right when shareware had
the potential to really get interesting (ironically co-inciding with the
advent of the web). That potential is still there, as you pointed out with
Linux. Java had potential for a while, but it's been squandered.
There are a lot of small start-ups that are doing some interesting things.
I'll pay $35 for a good filter or utility from an independent software
publisher, but I'd cut out a testicle before paying $600 for a copy of
QuirkXpress or Adobe PlagueMaker. Talk about your capitalist conspiracies...
the most powerful media tools are always the most expensive, especially when
you start getting into video editing systems.
--Charles
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