Very scary indeed, now the idea of M$ trying that is very plausible, but it actually happening.....not so sure about that. Ofcourse I have kinda predicted that the internet would evolve into something kinda like that with the credit card and all, kinda "The Running Man"-ish. Either way some one has to run it all, M$ probably figures why not them. Jason >Bob Tanner wrote: >> >> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html >> >> Isn't replacing TCP/IP with TCP/MS on the Internet going to make MS even MORE of >> a monopoly? >> > >Actually, if you're Microsoft, it sounds like a plausable enough "story" to sell >the idea to an unwitting public and government... and that's the scary part. > >Machiavelli is _not_ a type of pasta'idly, > >-S >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >