..from the ashes of orgs noted for their brilliance - mainly by its lacking.

Sounds as if they are as ept re any organized opposition to The Beast as, we are. So we can see a few more reasons why The Beast emulates The Blob ... feeding on an inexhaustible supply of sloth and dumbth. Unopposed as always.

[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23433.html|OpenForumEurope - more of the same old same old + White Papers?]

{sigh}

Tell me again - which org. is it that disseminates Open Source information so effectively here in the USofA? I forget. Umm maybe in 2005 (if... it isn't on the Attorney General's Subversives List by 2002) ??

[HUAC 2002]
Are you now or have you ever been a member of a group dedicated to the overthrow of Millennium Patriotic Innovative Intellectual Property Laws? - answer Yes or No! to this Committee.
[/preview of HUAC 2002]

Ashton
gosh - maybe the idea sounds too much like a Union or something