[BNM] the potentially massively long and drawn out MSFT/YHOO thread

[Nick Taylor]

> Nah, what the cool kids do is start rock bands or write like Vonnegut.

I've done both of those as well... apart perhaps from the second one*.



> These
> are just two points of view (and my flippant troublemaking internet personae
> which I *really* ought to knock on the head one of these days ­ anyone know
> of a good exorcist?) and mine is that Microsoft is a profit making business
> like most, and that technology is a toolbox that you should rummage about in
> until you have the right tool for the job, be it the big M or other.

That's a perspective granted, but the 21stC/internet==15thC/printing 
press, and the manouverings of microsoft (and giant media corporations 
generally) have a component of social-engineering to them, on a number 
of levels.

So on a superficial level : Like Bush? MS funded him. Use Linux? MS 
funded an attempt to destroy it.   Buy Microsoft? Then you funded these 
things as well.


> (Sorry about any offense taken Nick, but I¹ve had three pints and a
> Starbucks signature hot chocolate. That¹ll screw with anyone¹s hormones!)

Well... to be honest I was only feigning offence to rationalise 
overreacting :)




*Gimme a break, I can't even write like Nick Taylor.