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To: Buckey who wrote (338)	8/12/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Fellow Mad RedHaters. To see where you have come from read the following also check out the whole article for a history lesson. <<Through the Bootstrap Institute and its offshoot, the Bootstrap Alliance, Engelbart is exploring the best way to network our collective brain power to improve the way organizations communicate and solve problems. Or, as he puts its, we need to "bootstrap our collective IQ." A critical and missing component toward that goal is software written with open standards. How difficult a quest? Bill Gates would have to give up proprietary control over the way Microsoft software is written. But as the world networks more, the push for such standards intensifies. And a handful of major corporations - IBM, Sun Microsystems, Fuji Xerox Co. in Japan - and government agencies have joined the Bootstrap Alliance to explore new ways to stay ahead of the fast-changing technology curve. >> For the whole article go here: mercurycenter.com Be sure to check out the bootstrap Alliance. Also read the whole story if you do not know it. Greg