On Monday 18 August 2003 10:36 pm, you wrote: > Isnt that the same year some Gorge guy said: > war is peace; > freedom is slavery; > ignorance is strength. > > he he :)
actually, glad you brought that up. george orwell's vision turns out to be frighteningly true in the digital world, with total lack of real privacy, treacherous computing promoted as trusted computing, and one Big Brother spelled with a B. the launch of the macintosh ad showed the hammer thrown at that image. the mac promised 1984 won't be like 1984, but the promise is being fulfilled so far, not by apple, nor mac, but by gnuLinux. but hey, did you know george also wrote another book, probably alluding to the way the opensource community would work in this future: something about some animals being more equal than others . . . what did he call it, SCO Farm or something, i think . . . . hehehehe :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
