My $0.02: I think this attitude is relatively common because the "invisible hand" seems to spend a lot of time picking the "invisible nose" (at least in tech) from a lack of informed consumers. >>> blutgens at sistina.com 11/30/01 11:56AM >>> On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 23:03, Scott Dier wrote: > AT&T is buying the network so they have more network to exact control > over. :) WARNING! This is NOT A FLAME! :-) You take such a dark view of capitalist practices. Perhaps thier intentions are not malicious. Perhaps they just want to make some money. This is not a crime, nor is it immoral IMHO. After it is capitalism and the inherent strenghts and weaknesses that's made our countries economy strong enough to give us things like nationwide broadband Net access and buttloads of computer parts at reasonable prices. If you think any of this would be possible without the "Big Guns" the likes of say AT&T, U.S.West, and other so called "evil empires" *cough* microsoft *cough* you're mistaken. -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream