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On Saturday 20 April 2002 10:47, you wrote: Metcalfe's law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connections or nodes in it Dividing it in two quarters its total value. The Internet is best regarded as digital commons. Microsoft in seeking to partition the Internet are making an attack on the commons, and in the simplest of terms their attempt to enclose part of it, and take it over for their own benefit would drastically reduce the value of the commons to the whole of mankind, for a much smaller increase in value to billg et al. This is a crime against humanity. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.