But, perhaps, if I'd spent more time playing the boards, or writing her song than hacking, that might not have come to be. Another tangent, sure, but, hopefully, you'll see the parallels in how our technology demeans our pursuit of our life's quests. There will be no more troubleshooting Win95 machines that can't find their mouse, or, their, sound card, or, nic, or server, or whatever. OSS is free and, will solve these problems. Sure, I might have wasted a lot of time where it would have been better spent, and, also cost myself some human value, but, those souls drift regardless of these tangential issues.
True friends stay true .
I don't care. Bill's stuff couldn't make that happen for me. If that gets altered by the way Microsoft wants to run the protocols on your Microsoft machine, it will, truly be a tragedy. If the standard changes on your machine at Bill Gate's invocation, you'll no longer have access to this machine, or Yahoo, or IRC, or Mirabilis, or Altavista, or any other machine that was built for an enterprise audience. This will be the Internet's dead-end, if it comes to be.