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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (26393)	4/1/1999 7:15:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Privacy Thoughts With Little Internet Time.... >>You can be sure that MSFT understands what I'm saying. After all I once had a student who came up with a computerized method for recording music and had Microsoft people fly in to talk to him and that was early 80's and word of mouth. They know how to do these things well. Let's hope that Schmidt and those working with himn understand how little internet time they really have.>> Paul: I agree. IMHO, the way to proceed is to GET me/you, Peter, Dave, Scott - and anyone else - and the other original founders of this club....to..... Ok, the FBI is watching so I guess we have to simply ask Novell to make sure they GIVE Digital Me away for FREE. So once again: 1) END USERS GET DIGITAL ME FOR FREE...... 2) We ALL want to use it for ALL our virtual activities. 2) ISPs and Corporations and businesses doing e-commerce have to pay Novell for hooks and updates. The missing link is popular evangelism. Someone, some group, many groups handshaking their way together to get this message out that individuals NEED Ditigal Me to protect their individual virtual worlds. This is not unlike desiring to keep you door locked at night. Years ago in many areas of the country nobody thought to lock their doors. Well today the internet is operating and profiting on this naive mindset. Fact is, ALL our virtual doors are wide open - I'd even go so far to say that there we have no doors, period. Encryption and security is something that's been a local buzz, protecting the integrity of corporate and small business LANs/WANs. It's no secret that corporations and small businesses alike have been licking their virutal chops over this naivete: sell and resell profiles, names, numbers and e-mail addresses. It's an advertising/marketing fun house of mirrors. We are the dumb chaps who put up with it simply because we don't know any better. This FREEDOM has a downside, but the wild west aspect of this phase has indeed fueled the growth of the Internet. So what to do..... Again, Novell and these privacy concerns must virally work their way into the mindset of every individual who has a stake in this virtual world. Someone has to learn how to make doors, locks, mailboxes which we can feel secure about using, sharing, grouping in our own way on our own time. I view Digital Me as the shelf space for the Next Millenium, our - no honor to BC, but - "Bridge to the 21st Century". It will help us secure OUR stakes in this exploding virtual world BEFORE the government, Microsoft or some collection of BIG companies all align to prevent US from having these rights. Just because good doors DON'T exist NOW...doesn't mean that the government, FBI, city, state or corporations have the right to make them for their OWN collective benefit - tracking our comings and goings. I want to make my OWN virtual doors and I should have every right to have Novell or anyone else cater to ME and MY tastes so satisfy this need. Somewhere there has to be a privacy "ground zero' where only "I" can determine what's inside my security vault. This is not unlike me wanting to have the right to buy and small vault to place in the dark corner of my basement. We should have these rights and freedoms in our virtual worlds as well and nobody should have ANY right to find out what's inside, period. And while I'm at it, I sure would like to get to the click bye bye stage.....so we can really claim the personal freedom and power to choose and more efficiently manage our buying/selling worlds. Bye, bye... GO!