Maybe I didn't exactly understand your message, but...
I don't think that XP will help "building the Next Generation Internet".
I don't think that XP should be considered as an "evolution" of the Internet.
I don't think that XP will bring "freedom", as long as XP users will be
Microsoft-dependent.
I don't think that XP will bring "freedom of all people to communicate".
Maybe XP will bring SOME people on earth SOME freedom.
Especially freedom to flood and/or misuse the Internet, but this is another
debate...
Just remember : MY FREEDOM STOPS WHERE MY NEIGHBOR'S FREEDOM BEGINS...
Now, regarding your second mail...
I think that NO culture is "a better way to go". Life on earth is full of
different cultures. Period.
Only people like Adolf and Benito thought that their culture was "a better way
to go"...
(Hope you have enough culture to see what I mean... - Oops... Sorry for this
sarcasm...)
The only thing (*some*) "Americans are working hard to show the world" is that
they deny any other existing culture on earth (I don't say that I deny theirs)!
Fortunately, all Americans are not like those ones...
Back to our subject : I didn't know that Microsoft was able to "promote
culture".
Once again, I don't think that Microsoft will bring "freedom" in any way.
Have you ever had to register or activate Linux or Star Office? (sorry... just
an example I thought I had to mention...)
And what about developing countries?
What about people with low revenues?
What about basic needs (food, water, accommodation,...)?
Does everybody on earth have the money, the room, the power, the capacity, the
need,... for the kind of artificial "freedom" you seem to promote in your
e-mails?
But this is another debate...
Maybe I didn't exactly understand your message, but...
I will start agreeing with you when Microsoft will distribute its benefits to
people in need.
And when Americans will know who Valentina Terechkova is like Russians know who
John Glenn is.
And when Americans will speak afghan like Afghans speak english.
But this is another debate...
E.T.
P.S.: I've already read tens of mails from you, and I still wonder : what are
your real/interesting/positive/productive contributions to the IETF, anyway? -
Oops... Sorry for this sarcasm...
:o)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Fleming [mailto:jimfleming(_at_)prodigy(_dot_)net]
(...)
On October 25, 2001....Microsoft will make it possible for any person
with a single IPv4 address to begin building the Next Generation Internet.
Clearly, ICANN, the IETF, the IAB, and the IESG will not be supporting
that evolution and the freedom of all people to communicate....America
will...
(...)
In my opinion, Americans are working hard to show the world that
their culture of democracy and capitalism is a better way to go. On
October 25, 2001, Microsoft will help to promote that "culture".
While you are of course free to promote your ICANN "culture", I
think people around the world will eventually choose freedom. If they
do not, then they have themselves to blame. They now will have a choice.
(...)
Jim Fleming