[NTLUG:Discuss] CCIA White Paper -- MS Win 2000 Server Domination

Jeremy Blosser jblosser at firinn.org
Thu May 25 18:21:28 CDT 2000


greenglow484 at juno.com [greenglow484 at juno.com] wrote:
> I've just come across a "white paper" published by the CCIA, the Computer
> & Communications Industry Association.  Its title is:  "Microsoft Windows
> 2000: Blueprint for Domination".  It's located at: 
> http://www.ccianet.org/Win2000web.html 
...
> Quoting one paragraph:
> ""The implications of Windows 2000 for consumers and businesses are
> monumental. The concern is not simply about whether choices exist among
> word processing programs or browsers. It is about design and control of
> the most fundamental patterns for computing, networked communications,
> electronic commerce, and more. It is about forcing consumers to accept
> products they don’t want or need, and preventing other innovations from
                   ^^^

Anyone else find it (interesting? ironic?) that this paper would fall
victim to the MS character set "extention"?

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