On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:11:56 -0800, J J <azreal1977 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> And predictably stupid.  As Bill Gates and Co. have no concerns in this  
> world other then money, the best thing that could possibly happen for  
> them is for more of the world to get educated and start producing wealth  
> (which turns into money sooner or later, and windows/intel is largely  
> the only real alternative for personal computing at the moment).  But  
> instead they focus on the fact that they don't get to tax *this*  
> transaction.

I don't style myself savvy enough to understand the difficulties the  
project will encounter once it finally gets on the ground, but to not root  
for it--to hope for its failure couched in terms of "realism" and  
pseudo-intellectualism, this strikes me as the worst sort of narcissism.