[pchelpers] Re: Microsoft Hassling a Teenager
- From: "Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)" <Ekhart.GEORGI@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:57:08 +0200
John Durham wrote:
> Since Microsoft is one of the richest companies in the world, I wonder=20
> if they have now demonstrated the truth of this well known quotation?
> *** Rbi8 Ecclesiastes 5:10 ***
>
> 10 A mere lover of silver will not be satisfied with silver, neither any =
>
> lover of wealth with income. This too is vanity.
Hi John
It's going to get much worse. I wonder how far MS will be able to go
before more than the current few number of people start realizing that
MS is literally out to control our lives and wallets, as preposterous
and bombastic as it is and sounds. Even conservative columnist John
Dvorak has woken up. Check this out:
Dvorak Online: Microsoft's Strong-Arm Upgrade Tactics
Columnist John C. Dvorak thinks he knows why Microsoft decided
to cease support of Windows 98 and Office 2000, and he doesn't
think it's because the software is outdated. He believes the
move is one way to force people to upgrade to new software,
and that it could be a step toward what he holds is Microsoft's
wish for a subscription model for OSs and Office applications.
Dvorak does not paint a pretty picture. Read his column for
all the alarming details.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-408-1-1-149975-27424-1
Max Frisch wrote a very good play that describes what happens when
somebody openly states they're going to rip others off (or take away
their civil rights, or take from the poor and give to the rich, or kill
more children every day than were killed in the Twin Towers, etc.!) and
too many people take the easy way out. The play's message is said
succinctly in the quote at the beginning of the article on this play on
www.wfu.edu/academics/theatre/archives/archives2000-01/biedprod/biedermannpro.htm
:
Evil is near.
Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around
me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence…not
struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.
—Suzanne Massie,
Russian author and historian
Ekhart
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