[plug] Oxymoronic statement of the month

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Wed Feb 6 21:39:19 WST 2002


>From http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/hr/story/0,2000024989,20262934,00.htm:
> .NET My Services will enable applications, devices, and services to
> work together on the user's behalf and under the user's control by
> allowing Web services to access data centrally stored in a central
> digital location. -- Paul Houghton, MD of M$ Oz & NZ

So... *allowing* your services to work through Microsoft's MCP is somehow 
made to sound like Tron?

Paul goes on to say ``it provides unprecedented levels of personal control'' 
but zero personal control is hardly unprecedented, now, is it?

Cheers; Leon



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