They're both clueless, then. The defendent is claiming that removing hyperlinking will make the web less interesting, when in fact hyperlinking is the only thing defining it as a web!

My wife is using Foobar2000 for Windows which uses 12MB of resident memory. I used it for years as well but the browser is clunky so I switched back to Windows Media Player (30MB resident while viewing a list of album cover thumbnails).

Songbird is a music player and library organizer similar to iTunes or Winamp. It's based on the Mozilla Firefox Gecko framework. It inexplicably uses about 130MB of RAM while idle.

I confused PHPBB code by accident. I'm not in the habit of entering HTML in a form textarea.

As you can plainly see, web standards are very important to me!

[blockquote]Hyperlinking is what the web is all about, says p2pnet founder Jon Newton. 'Without it, the Internet would become a drab and pale facsimile of the exciting news, data and information medium it is today. [/blockquote]

Um, without hyperlinking it wouldn't be much of a "web" at all, would it? Why is the defendent so clueless about his own case? This isn't a matter of something interesting becoming drab, it's a matter of whether Canada chooses to exclude itself from the civilized world.

If you go to your CIO saying "if we took less than half the money we spend on licensing Microsoft's software alone and invested that in training users for an open source system, we would be far better off in the long run" you will be ignored. Rip and replace never goes as smoothly as the pamphlets promise. Fine one application with measurable improvements over your existing system and make an ROI case for that one small change. Earn the credibility by being sympathetic to your CIO or IT Director's objectives.