on 10/5/01 7:07 PM, George Mogiljansky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finally, a light at the end of the tunnel. > Yes, the decisions made over many years to allow M$ to > dominate the way it does were of a mainly political > nature. > Without going into too much detail, certain vested > interests saw the potential of "data mining" long > before the term was coined. These interests made it > possible for themselves to tap into the data streams. > The fact that engineers and non-hacker types have > denounced the status quo as being a burden on the > financial health and a brake on innovation doesn't > bother them, at least not yet.
If you'd like to go into some detail to me off the list I'd be interested... because I can't make heads or tails of anything you just wrote. :) I'm not flaming you, it just sounds like something out of the matrix... -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
