Nothing did more to ruin the high hopes represented by Apple's
hammer-tossing woman than the dominance of Microsoft,
soon to become the most ruthless monopoly since Standard Oil. The
result has been inferior technology cleverly contrived to keep the
public buying one mediocre and buggy program after another. But then,
what would you expect from a company that seems to make as much money
from litigation as invention?
-- Theodore Roszak. "Raging Against the Machine"
Los Angeles Times, January 28,2004, p. B15
We have watched high tech become the next wave in big-bucks global
industrialism, the property of the crass and the cunning, who are no
more interested in empowering the people than General Motors was....
We have burdened our children with the distractions of becoming
computer literate before they are just plain old literate.
-- Theodore Roszak. "Raging Against the Machine"
Los Angeles Times, January 28,2004, p. B15