At 20:23 09-07-01 +0000, Lynn Allen wrote:
>The main point is that regardless of how *monolithic* sofware companies
>believe themselves to be (Microsoft and Adobe come to mind), and how
>*infallable* some engineers occasionally consider themselves to be (no
>present company included or excluded), the fact remains that it's you and
>I who are "down here in the trenches," working with these machines and
>this software. I'm happy to say that at least a few members on this list
>are one or both of the above, and *do* pay attention. But the vast
>majority are more concerned with their blocks of code and their
>stock-sharing contracts than they are with the users.
<snip>
>I remain an Equal Oportunity Cynic, like Art. I should probably make more
>noise when I see a good program (like Vuescan), or good hardware (like
>Dell). But as far as I see it, we users are largely oversupplied,
>oversold, and underserved by the industry. The Industry *does* in fact
>need a good, swift, kick in the butt. :-)
Of course it does but the US-DOJ apparently wasn't up to the job. That
leaves us consumers.
Sidebar// nobody can truly detest and disrespect Microsoft as much as
someone who was on the inside for six years as I was [former Senior
Technical Writer--Windows NT Server Resource Kit 91-97]. I was at enough
company meetings to know how they really think and it's not pretty.
(not linked from intro page)
Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia
, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- "Behind all
these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object."
~Joseph Campbell
