tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139540257852707668.post8988500125115328079..comments2022-04-01T05:22:24.872-04:00Comments on Clock's Mind: Yahoo and Microsoft??? Microsoft Debt?TemporalBeinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06247647473502902350noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139540257852707668.post-81169264937282911462008-02-10T03:23:00.000-05:002008-02-10T03:23:00.000-05:00Nice.I just came here from Cringley's column after...Nice.<BR/>I just came here from Cringley's column after reading your comment. You are one of the reasonable, humbler ones that doesn't claim to know 99% of any topic BXC chooses to write on. <BR/>So, about your column, you know this is really just another form of gossip. After feeling that I know something of your character, I hope you can't spend too much time wondering about this ;-)<BR/>So, gossip is a proven seller. <BR/>Theologically, I don't think MS can harm or help any more than Google can, over the long run of things that are really important. You bring up the ISO standard, and imply that it will add a burden to those others attached to the OpenOffice architecture. Well, maybe so, in the same way that our President had decided to go against the grain of world opinion and launch the attack on Iraq. Big Mistake. But you know, probably, that inside of every "mistake" of these proportions (is the ISO decision, is not a binding law, but a strong suggestion on what each member country should do, in the same category?) there are sparks of truth, windows, on the progress that our continually advancing civilization will make. These mistaken choices merely slow down the process, but can't divert God's plan. <BR/>So, I don't think MS (or Google) actions are at that level of significance. They are players, big players, now on the scene. They will, regardless of what they do continue a (divine?) process of enhancing the Internet's fabric that in turn is weaving more and more of us rich (still a minority) folks together. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps this seems monolithic. And certainly by many standards of measurement it is. However the foundation is built on people. It is "merely" an economic enterprise. It comprises people with souls. People with choices to make. It isn't some work of nature like a mountain. So we think technology can move mountains don't we; and yet there are eventual consequences.<BR/><BR/>I have said similar things on a blog of an Iraqi I regularly read, and the similarities I have alluded to here. Your thoughts, and the thoughts of the Iraqi journalist (now MA student in the US) are useful to me in seeing the wonders which God hath wrought. However I have to remind myself that I am looking at human actions, so that the "objective" point of view, doesn't really exist, much as I seem to pretend it does. I can't see the evidences of our Creator in the movement of MS and Google and Yahoo! for several reasons: 1) I don't really know what the BIG Picture looks like in detail because I am standing on its surface. The comments that I feel are true come from trying to look upward and believe that the greater scope and depth of the pattern I have learned to see "up there", is reflected on the surface. and 2) my intelligence and knowledge, and attention is divided and limited, more limited and divided than yours in many ways.<BR/><BR/>I am very much concerned about our (mankind's) growing awareness of "community", which many issues on RXC's have an impact on. The next stage involves purpose for our community. This is where market dominance, gaining market share, economic performance measured by stock valuation, doesn't have a clue. Yet it probably can become a useful economic/financial tool, to address real world whole world issues. Perhaps this is why, I can't help start a wave cheer against MS. I think that the Gates/Hathaway charity foundation money will be alot more effective in making a difference in more people's lives than the struggles of MS and Google will within my "foreseeable" future..<BR/>Regards from JapanAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948341359264244662noreply@blogger.com