[extropy-chat] Microsoft (was: singularity conference atstanford)

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 16, 2006, at 4:11 AM, Heartland wrote:

>
> It's very simple. Either Leitl wants to have his messages read by  
> Outlook Express
> users by using a different mail program or not. It's his personal  
> decision. After
> all, it is always the audience that does the author the favor by  
> reading his/her
> stuff, not the other way around. It's not the audience that should  
> change. I
> certainly almost never had the patience for opening these attachments.
>

If you have read much of Eugen's stuff you would know he does the  
world a favor with his energy and the quantity and quality of what he  
puts out.   The Outlook Express dweebs are not doing him a favor by  
reading it much less by insisting that he support their broken software.

- samantha