Re: chromebook
tomas writes:
> I think bigcorps love that, because they hate the decentralized nature
> of mail.
I don't think they care (except that they don't want one of their
competitors in control). Government hates it, of course. It would have
been easy to adopt anti-spam measures that would have made what you do
impossible, but it wasn't done.
> Spam pressure plus measures making the live of small mail providers
> [difficult] help centralization.
This is true. People also seem to like centralization, unfortunately.
> This is what I call Emergent Evil. I thon't think there's a single
> person out there scheming out those things, but a corporation as a
> whole does come up with that kind of perverse behaviour.
Better "emergent evil" (I've seen the term elsewhere) than the "devil"
theory but I don't think it is useful to talk about evil at all. They
are just people doing what works for them (even in government, the
biggest and most powerful bigcorp of all).
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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