On Wed, 2 May 2001, Dan Brian wrote:
> Another snippet from the .NET whitepaper:
>
> <snip>
> Everyone believes the Web will evolve, but for that evolution to be
> truly empowering for developers, businesses, and consumers, a radical new
> vision is needed. Microsoft's goal is to provide that vision and the
> technology to make it a reality.
> </snip>
>
> In other words, evolution in and of itself is not empowering. Without the
> vision[tm], evolution is "deempowering".
Well, strictly speaking, they only implied that, without their
Vision[tm], evolution would be nonempowering...which is different than
deempowering; things could just remain in a steady state.
It's still a pretty arrogant claim, no matter which way you slice
it.
Dave
