Re: The FAQ system approaches obsolescence. What do we do now?

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Eric S. Raymond (esr@locke.ccil.org)
Thu, 8 Dec 1994 19:51:55 -0500 (EST)

> Eric said:
>
> > The masses and the market are going to move to WWW. We old hands can lead,
> > or we can follow, or we can become irrelevant. There are no other choices.
>
> Ever since I can remember, the direction of my life has led
> me away from the masses and the market decisions. You may
> opt for a life of gleaming, polished, ferroconcrete malls on
> the Information Cyberhighway if you so desire; I will sit at
> home with my LPs, my magazines and newspapers, my gas stove
> and my flat-file FAQ, and be content.

I gather we are upposed to believe that you're exhibiting some kind of Thoreau
-like nobility, and by implication that my position makes me some sort of
vulgar shill for lowest-common-denominator pop culture and (horrors!)
*capitalists*.

What complete, pompous bullshit. You disappoint me.

Ah well. By the time you're done coping with the surface noise, the
media oligopoly and the carbon monoxide, you probably won't have enough
critical capacity left to notice that the FAQ is out of date.

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					Eric S. Raymond <esr@locke.ccil.org>
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