Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Carl Pultz wrote: > It's one of those colossal ironies that the (deservedly) hated > Microsoft made possible the most democratic revolution in technology > (for the average person, not a unix programmer) built on a platform > created by the equally ignoble partner of fascists, IBM. Revolution: The overthrow of one ruler and the substitution of another by the goverened. Democracy: Government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation. Facism: A political philosophy that exalts nation above the individual and stands for a centralized autocratic government, headed by a dictatorial leader. So, if I'm reading the above correctly, the democratic revolution must be the one in which the goverend people (the average, non unix programmers) overthrow themselves (the rulers, since it's a democracy), substituting their own rulership for something new -- presumably in this case, the deservedly hated Microsoft, who partners up with IBM to create a system in which a centralized, autocratic rulership is headed by a dictatorial leader with little concern for the individual (back again to the average user). Yep... sounds about right to me. M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html