Re: [Leica] An Abbreviated History of Computers

[Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>]

You got it Martin.

- --- Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
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