<OT> What If?

[Wall, Kurt]

Yeah, it's OT. It rings true, however.

% If Microsoft had been the first to invent books:

We'd all be illiterate.

%  1. Before you can open the cover of your new book, you must obtain 
%     a book activation code by phoning Microsoft.
%  2. Sorry, only one person may ever read your book.
%  3. It's full of spelling mistakes and typos.
%  4. When you're reading your book, the type can mysteriously disappear.
%  5. Libraries, which are for sharing books, are illegal.
%  6. You must acknowledge you have read and understood the Book License 
%     Agreement Hype (BLAH) before you can read your book.
%  7. Microsoft has the right to enter your premises to conduct book 
%     inspections to make sure your book is being read in accordance with 
%     the BLAH.
%  8. The Book Users' Group General Alliance (BUGGA) calculates that the 
%     annual loss of revenues to Microsoft arising from BLAH violations 
%     in 2001 was $10.97 billion.
%  9. There are two versions of your book - the "Standard" and the "Pro" 
%     versions. In the standard version, those pages containing the most 
%     useful information have been stuck together.
% 10. Confidential information is inexplicably in bigger type that can 
%     be easily read by anyone glancing over your shoulder.

Kurt
-- 
Even though they raised the rate for first class mail in the United
States we really shouldn't complain -- it's still only two cents a
day.