| Rob Myers on Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> dark days |
On 13/06/13 02:42, Ian Milliss wrote:
Why is that so sad, not about cleverness, surely it is just that some people have been realistic from early on. Since the 90s I've certainly assumed Microsoft was in the collaboration and spying business and so did various European governments, I seem to remember a lot of discussion about only using open source software in government rather than Windows etc.
Oh yes, assuming the worst and actually doing something about it is good. I'm talking about a kind of smug quiescence.
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