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I guess the Cracker song: Get off this[1] is more appropriate. (The Leftover Salmon/Cracker collaboration is a better version, though...) [1] http://www.lyricart.net/lyrics/cracker/kerosene_hat/get_off_this/ get_off_this.html -Rob On Nov 4, 2003, at 2:52 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > rob@k... (Robert Koberg) writes: >> You gotta serve somebody. >> -- Bob Dylan > > Yes, but I think even Bob in that phase of his career still held out > that there was choice in who and what you serve. That song[1] is all > about those choices. > > Service is not shame, unless what you serve is shameful. > > Unfortunately, projects like Avalon coupled with Microsoft's pulling > the > plug on Internet Explorer strike me as being precisely about forcing > choices to serve their interests, and that qualifies as shameful. > > Network effects can make life great. They can also lead to great > shame. > It's time for me to find a career where network effects don't force me > into shame. > > [1] - http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/serve.html > > -- > Simon St.Laurent > Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets > Errors, errors, all fall down! > http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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