Sickening shilling for MS by Ontario privacy commissioner

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:08:57 -0400
David J Patrick got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:

> > A good place to start to get answers to your questions is the Linux
> > Journal article I referenced earlier in this thread. Follow that up
> > with some, well, maybe a lot of, reading about identity systems here:
> > <http://identity20.com/> and here: <http://openid.net/>. There are
> > links to other relevant sites at the bottom of the latter page.
> 
> excellent !
> thanks Cliff,

This is what it all comes down to?

"There is an improvement I want to see, and it's something only Independent
Identities can produce. I want anybody to be able to pay for anything on a
voluntary basis, because I believe the voluntary ability to pay whatever one
wants is at the heart of a free and open marketplace. I also believe we haven't
experienced that power since the Industrial Revolution put huge suppliers in
charge, even of democratic governments. We certainly haven't had it since the
invention of the price tag."

Oh yeah, excellent idea. And just how long do you think the 'voluntary'
part is going to last? Let's put all this technology to work so we can put a
price tag on *everything*. Why should we even begin to trust Microsoft's
involvement in any of this, despite the 'brilliance' of people like Kim? What
possible place does Microsoft have in a 'free and open marketplace', or even
designing the technology to supposedly bring one about?

None of this is addressed in the linuxjournal piece. Pfeh. This guy's in
dreamland.

Keynes (a capitalist) said it best:

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the
most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

If Ballmer et al are any example...any involvement by people with their kind of
sociopathy is dangerous to any public good the 'Net may still have to serve.
This is all about turning the 'Net into one big lame virtual Shopping Mall,
guaranteed.

-- 
JoeHill / RLU #282046
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Paul: If rubbin' frozen dirt in your crotch is wrong, hey, I don't wanna be
right.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists