Quoting Paolo Alexis Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyway, it's all reminiscent of history - there are powerful entities > that refuse to let people free by discouraging them to learn the skills > for themselves, and instead promote the bliss due to ignorance. Relating > to the tools analogy, these powerful entities provide the tools to their > people, but discouraging these people from looking for more suitable > ones, better tools or even the opportunity to improve the tools without > being at the mercy of these powerful entities, which if done, would set > these people free.
True story: At one of my network-consulting customer sites, one of the secretaries had the job of maintaining the company intranet, using MS-Front Page. (The company, as a matter of policy, ran an all-Microsoft LAN; thus their severe routing problems, thus their need to hire me.) She was intellectually curious, so, outside her work hours and during my non-billed time, I showed her interesting aspects of the HTML she was generating: She'd actually never seen HTML, and was startled to encounter it, let alone be able to critique it and distinguish good HTML from bad, and understand why. The immediate result? I was firmly requested by her management to cease calling her attention to HTML or any other internals of her work materials. They say nothing but trouble from allowing employees to actually understand what they were doing. And of course they were right. ;-> -- Cheers, The shortest distance between two puns is a straightline. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
