>"People are so strange. Everybody is deranged. Every time I try to
>speak, they don't get it for a week." (Lyrics from Philippine punk
>group Eraserheads, cited in the Wall Street Journal as one of Love
>Bug hacker Onel de Guzman's favorite groups.)
>
>I'm surprised de Guzman hasn't received any discussion on this list
>as some sort of populist hero. He claims he developed the virus as
>a thesis project, of all things, and that it was intended to give
>the poor free access to the Web. At the very least, he deserves
>credit, IMHO, for revealing the soft underbelly of the Web, which is
>now so central to global capitalism.
Soft underbelly of Microsoft products, in this case. Which are not yet, and may never be, identical to the Web (or web, in LBO house style).
Doug