very well put! I agree with you 100%! Email: truthobjective@xxxxxxxxx AIM: msd4283 MSN: mark.driesenga@xxxxxxxx Skype: markdriesenga ----- Original Message ----- From: Stefano Manzi To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:31 AM Subject: O.E. and consideration about future in general I'm sorry but I can't share this point of view. Running continuously behind new technology, new software, let's say new everything, means to let conditionate by others and not to think with our own brain and mind. In this case: if I know by other blind, that Windows Mail causes difficulties during its usage, that Windows Vista is painful in general for users, that trusted computing in general is just a mask behind which worldwide firms hide to earn money because of their bussinesses and limit users' freedom, and so on... why must I become slave of Microsoft, of machines, becoming myself a robot controlled by other humans and things, loosing my self-control? Until softwares will work properly, I don't have any particular needs to change them! The same for a bit old car that keeps on traveling, having a perfect engine, for which I pay my taxes and insurance and more else. The same for a cell phone, a television, a radio, everything existing on this earth. Let's try to be everyone ourselves, having information but not always adequating our life at the levels of a stressed market and society. Because, the market must adapt to customers needs and not vice versa. Our future will be influenced more and more by lobbies, machines and whatever else. If we let other control us, soon we will live in a society where someone from far away will know not only if our software is regular or not, how many songs or films do we have on our computer, the model and the brand of video recorder or cell phone. Every aspect of our private life will be known... how many times we go to the toilette! Would you like to feel violating your privacy? I don't think so... then, let's try when possible to remain a bit with our classic mind, not following excessively innovatiosn! Greetings STefano