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I guess the Cracker song:
Get off this[1]
is more appropriate.
(The Leftover Salmon/Cracker collaboration is a better version,
though...)
[1]
http://www.lyricart.net/lyrics/cracker/kerosene_hat/get_off_this/
get_off_this.html
-Rob
On Nov 4, 2003, at 2:52 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> rob@koberg.com (Robert Koberg) writes:
>> You gotta serve somebody.
>> -- Bob Dylan
>
> Yes, but I think even Bob in that phase of his career still held out
> that there was choice in who and what you serve. That song[1] is all
> about those choices.
>
> Service is not shame, unless what you serve is shameful.
>
> Unfortunately, projects like Avalon coupled with Microsoft's pulling
> the
> plug on Internet Explorer strike me as being precisely about forcing
> choices to serve their interests, and that qualifies as shameful.
>
> Network effects can make life great. They can also lead to great
> shame.
> It's time for me to find a career where network effects don't force me
> into shame.
>
> [1] - http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/serve.html
>
> --
> Simon St.Laurent
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