Taking a Dump on the Shoulders of Giants

[ via Doc Searles ] One of my old coworkers asked a list we’re on about how to keep people from playing CDs on their computers. Pigdog says what I felt about that:

Look at you. Look at yourself. Look at what you’ve BECOME. Your job is writing code to BREAK PEOPLE’S COMPUTERS if they dare to put a CELINE DION CD into their disk drive. Is this what you always wanted? Is this what you went to school for? Is this what we’ve all — all of us, every other hacker and programmer and geek and computer person — is this what we’ve all helped you to do?

Again, if you put a Celine Dion CD in your computer, I think you get what you’re asking for…

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