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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@[...].com] 
> 
>  How about this:  it is time for the innovation 
>  in computers in general and the web in particular 
>  to stop.  It is time for a regulated standard to 
>  be created and enforced by statute such that if 
>  one buys a computer and a program to run on it 
>  today, it will run on a computer that you buy 
>  50 years from now, and that the computer you 
>  buy today will run any program written 50 
>  years from now.
>  
>  It works for TV and automobiles.  Why not computers?
>  We must get out of the experimenter/hobbyist 
>  phase and enable people to get the most out 
>  of their investment.  The situation today 
>  is ALL Bill Gates' fault, of course.
>  
>  ;-)
>  
>  That's not an original thought or even a troll. 
>  It was proposed in an article this past weekend 
>  and comes from a journalist think tank type.

I applaud the sentiment. There's very little innovation worth
having in computers, that wasn't already thought of and implemented
by 1980.

Bill de hÓra


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