carrol> As of a week ago I would have made the same point Michael
carrol> makes -- that I would run linux if it ran all the programs I
carrol> use with equal or greater simplicity (by which I mean
carrol> catering to my laziness) of Win98 programs I run. After
carrol> reading Kendall's attacks on the workers of the world I
carrol> would now continue to use Microsoft as a gesture of
carrol> solidarity with all the people who don't have time for
carrol> Kendall's moral one-upmanship.
Which would put you in solidarity with all those Washington state prisoners that do almost all of Microsoft's non-"knowledge-worker" labor like packaging their software products, right?
It's further hard to see how I was attacking (irrespective of my intent or what I actually *said*) the "workers of the world" -- so grandiose a charge! -- when the overwhelming majority of them not only do not *own* a computer but have never seen one.
Best, Kendall Clark