On 7/17/02 1:08 PM, "Barry A. Warsaw" <barry@zope.com> wrote:
You're definitely more optimistic than I am. When Hollywood, the RIAA, and Microsoft team up against it, and the h/w manufacturers capitulate or risk being tarred as un-Americans aiding cyberterrorism I think we have an up-Hill (sic) battle.
But there are a whole lotta other companies banding together to build stuff using open standards and open software. Apple today announced new work with sony erriccson and cingular on GPRS and bluetooth, for instance (kewl stuff), and is openly supporting open standards instead of trying to lock people into proprietary ones.
Just because some companies are trying to wall off the internet doesn't mean they will. Remember, AOL tried that for years, and finally had to connect in and join the net, too. The net is going to prove pretty hard to kill.
can-we-kill-this-thread-now?-ly y'rs,
Sure.
-- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech chuqui@plaidworks.com -- http://www.chuqui.com/
The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily ever after