off: here's a small news flash for MS Products Users

[andy baxter]

Richard wrote:
> Well, for those of you whom use Microsoft Products... at work.<sick>
>
> this might change you mind....(to push linux even more)
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece
>   

The paper was talking about this just as a human rights issue, but this 
isn't the whole point to me. Yes it's intrusive on a personal level, but 
it also points, I would have thought, to broader problems in our 
society, and with the technological imagination of companies like 
microsoft. The only kind of company who would want to use this, I would 
have thought, is one where trust between management and workers is 
non-existent, and the management want to squeeze every last bit of 
productivity out of people who probably shouldn't be so stressed in the 
first place. Which is more of a social/political issue than a 
technological one. What does it say about MS and the companies who might 
be attracted to this kind of 'solution' that they see the research 
leading to this as a useful contribution to the world's knowledge? 
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