Rest assured, Gene, I've been through the "I hate Microsoft" thing about a billion times. How could I hate a company I find so vastly amusing? Unlike Bill, I do not expect Windows to be replaced "in a day" by some "bright innovator". It's with us for a long time, for better or worse. As to love, you'll have to correspond with those who've publicly expressed their love for Microsoft.
As for Lessig, I find it a bit ironic for you to give me the old love/hate line and then come back with a line like this:
To bitch about loosing your bookmarks is really childish. it sounds just like Haahvud. Subtle, deft sycophancy. It sounds like he was hustling for consulting work.
Mama, Mama I want to sue Microsoft for 10 billion dollars. They made me loose my bookmarks. No lets get all of the states A G, the DOJ to join us in the law suit and we'll make it 80 billion. All of it to the lawyers and the politicians. You can trust lawyers and politicians|
Right. First of all, Lessig is an academician. Second, he clerked on the Supreme Court (for that noted commie liberal pinko, Scalia), which if you know anything about legal education, means he's no dummy, and could make a lot better than an academic salary without trying real hard. Third, he taught at "the Chicago School", and clerked for that other well known commie liberal pinko Possner, which means that even if his views on antitrust aren't exactly up to Objectivist snuff, he's been plenty exposed what's considered the best academic version of free market ideology around, and held his own well among that kind to move up professionally. Look up the relatively brief list of Nobel Laureates in Econ, and check their academic affiliations.
Oh, one more thing. When the browser is an application, like it oughta be in the old-line CS view of the world, you don't usually have to worry about conflicts with different versions laying around, they can all coexist peacefully, without interference, and you don't have to worry about any of them messing up your OS and crashing your machine or necessitating the old reformat/reinstall either. When the browser is "integrated" like IE4, it doesn't quite work that way. Pity, that.
You want to talk childish wah-wah, talk about Bill, the ever innovative software engineer. Who seems committed to brilliantly representing himself in this legal matter also. And Microsoft in general, which never hesitates to send in the legal eagles on little guys that can't afford to defend themselves, like anybody with nt in their domain name, or some guy selling "you will be assimilated" T-shirts. You can trust lawyers and politicians? Not particularly, but I trust Bill less. He's got less effective competition, fewer checks and balances.
Cheers, Dan. |
