8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
1:17 p.m.
Rumor has it that Bruce Lane may have mentioned these words:
<SPLORRRFFF!!>
I concur wholeheartedly!
For my part: They can have my PC's,
microcontrollers, servers,
and my network when they pry them from my rotting carcass. Seriously.
Yup. Preachin' to the choir here... ;-)
Let me put it this way: Not only 'NO!'
but 'FRELL, NO!!!'
And if we're pulling John Crichton quotes: "Bill Gates can't guarantee
Windows; how you gonna guarantee my safety?"
And no, I won't let M$, Google or anyone else store my data. Even if I have
to go back to my Tandy CoCo3 to being my main machine!
And "they" are going to have to do a
LOT of forcing before I
would ever give up my right to run my own servers and domains. As long as
my ISP keeps my line up, I'll keep paying them to do so. Period.
If, further down the road, it turns out that I will need to buy
something more powerful than a DSL pipe to continue being self-hosted,
then so be it.
We're on the same wavelength yet again.... and I was thinking just before I
read this:
I ran a dialup FidoNet BBS for nearly ten years
I haven't, but I'd certainly start one to get the (or at least *a*) 'net
back to geek-only status... dammit, if ya don't wanna learn the difference
between a hard drive & a modem, you shouldn't be telecommunicating. [[ In
the car world: dammit, if ya don't wanna learn the difference between a
carburetor and a transmission, you shouldn't be rebuilding engines! ]]
I will NOT give it up without a fight!
Neither will I.
I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories, but maybe M$ & it's ilk _are_
the "New World Order???"
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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