[edlug] Re: Stallman's talk

[Andrew Beames <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

On Saturday 29 May 2004 19:55, michael calwell wrote:
> Dick Middleton wrote:
> 2: The minute it gets 'old', (the licencing expires*, or there's a kind
> of peer pressure to upgrade to Word X) Then you are forced onto the
> ridiculous upgrade roundabout, ditching perfectly acceptable hardware to
> accomodate bloatware that doesn't actually do anything more than what
> you've replaced it with, other than features that you'll never actually
> want or need. It's a rather silly charade of  waste, coercion,
> disruption, and only to wind up where you started, and shows up such a
> lack of vision, imagination and courage on the part of the so-called
> professionals that instigate and perpetuate it.

I read an interview on Tim O'Reilly recently where he said something along the 
lines of: MS & Intel are stuck in the mindset of making money out of 
commodities whereas the likes of Yahoo, google, ebay are making money out of 
data/information.

Interesting point. 

A.
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