i know that it's next to useless, but i still hold on to my amiga 3k if only to remind me how advanced the technology available to us /could/ have been had the marketplace not been dominated by microsoft and its predatory ways. i have no problem with bill making his billions, it's the sacrifices that we all have had to make (whether we realize it or not) along the way that upsets me. when i was in high school i had a teacher who was in love with the greeks. i remember him saying "if the greeks had computers at their disposal, where do you think we would be now?" well, i've never been able to imagine what the answer could be, whether we would be populating distant planets (possibly in other galaxies) or perhaps we would be fighting to survive after numerous apocalyptic scenarios. i do know, however, that the computing marketplace should be driven by the best technology, and not the best marketing schemes. i'm not saying that microsoft is to blame for _all_ of it. i'm only saying that they don't make it any easier for the smaller guys with the better ideas to really make it either. thank you, judge jackson, for seeing thru the double talk and half-truths that ms execs are capable of and coming the right conclusion. i feel that this is the first step towards a future in which people not only have real choices, but that they will be able to choose among products born of real innovation and free thinking rather than the mammoth marketing machines existing today.