I think you got the 60's part right, but I'm not sure the last statement is true. I'm a GenX-er and my Boomer college professors in the early 90s were always blown away by how NOT authority phobic we all were. I think they made the same assumptions you do and were surprised. Of course that might have been an outlier since I went to a big Ivy league school full of people who assumed that one day they would BE the authority. I took a medical ethics course that was obviously designed from the perspective of the consumer/patient and the prof failed to take into account the fact that 80% of the students would be pre-med.

Really? You really think this pretty well sums it up? I bet you think this is really clever and totally shows up those dumb hippy protesters because of their clueless hypocrisy. Look! They're using things made by CORPORATIONS but don't even realize it and they say they hate CORPORATIONS! Ha! Snort! What dumbasses! Sweet Jesus on a Pogo Stick man, you do realize that 99% of corporations are made up of people in the bottom 99%, right? That these people have a problem with the rich, entitled leaders of just SOME corporations that are sticking it to everyone else, right? Not the actual companies themselves. Right?

There are several companies that produce application "streaming" or "sequencing" products that might fit your bill. Check out http://www.softricity.com/ as probably the best example. They basically keep the application data on a server (as opposed to the entire OS image) and then stream it down in chunks as the user needs it. Softricity is the best in the market at this point because they also run a virtualized environment around the apps so they can run without any conflicts. Great if you need to load two different versions of the same app on one box. The systems are then just clean base OS installs and the cached apps can be instantly cleared for things like patching or other maintenance. A lot less hassle than a full virtual desktop deployment. --TP in UT