Re: filmscanners: OT (was: Anyone using Win2K? )

[Bigboy9955@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/10/2001 4:48:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lalle@email.com writes:


> Somebody's got to keep the giants honest--Microsoft, Adobe, AOL, the whole
> lot of them--and the best candidates for that are the small developers,
> Art's "Genius Companies." Lord knows, the Courts and the Congress won't.


Weren't they all once the "small developers" or "genius companies", losing 
their "warm fuzzy feeling" with consumers when they became profitable or 
hugely so?
The companies that revolutionized the pc and the internet are now corporate 
giants, and who wants to root for them?  They lose a large part of their 
heart and soul by becoming giants too impersonal to care about the consumer.  
No way around losing (or dissatisfying) a big part of your base in exhange 
for millions of new consumers.
Ed