Subject: Re: [WWWW] Big update!

From: "aolung" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 13:59:10 -0000

--- In lojban@y..., John Cowan <cowan@c...> wrote:
> pycyn@a... scripsit:

> > Further, they should be the last people 
> > to put down the crap that users use, since they were the people who created 
> > the crap in the first place and who have regularly failed to improve it in 
> > the ways that they say it should be done.
> 
> Not so. Windows and all its works are made by geeks who have sold themselves
> to marketeers. Windows is a Yugo at Cadillac prices. What is more, the Windows
> culture is a tyranny, which like all such is supported by the meekness of
> its victims. The Yugo failed because people felt more confident rejecting a
> piece-of-crap car; Windows has not yet failed because people were
> subject to FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt).

Hosiannah and Amen! 
Is it a mass hysteria or just a "whole" world's sheep instinct. It reminds me of other kinds of tyranny (also in my country!):
It really is fear, uncertainty, doubt - and kind of mental laziness!

mu'omi'e .aulun.