Re: TECH/NEWS: AOL about to acquire Netscape

From: Timothy Bates (tbates@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Tue Nov 24 1998 - 00:18:25 MST


This report by JonKatz on slashdot is the way i think about the
AOL/Netscape conglomerate.
http://slashdot.org/features/98/11/23/1248251.shtml

I think Anthony Hopkins said it best in Legends of the Fall* when he
screwed up his face and expelled those legendary words "fuckem".

*(One of the great libertarian movies of our decade
    <http://us.imdb.com/Title?Legends+of+the+Fall+(1994)>

____________________
The net was chaotically free: now 70% of traffic is in the hands of just
4 companies.

Read the story below and switch your service AWAY from the big guys: they
will wreck the net if you don't.

http://www.salonmagazine.com/june97/21st/netpricing970612.html



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