For your amusement

[David Fletcher <fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whilst sitting here in front of a 5% routed PCB artwork, feeling 
incredibly bored, thinking why the hell did I suggest to my boss 
those several years ago that I could make a better job of a PCB than 
that idiot contractor who managed to get the silk screen wrong way 
round on that tantalum capacitor that went bang.....

An amusing thought occurred to me. Now that discrimination is so 
widely illegal, for instance we're not allowed to discriminate 
against people on grounds of race, religion, disability, sex, sexual 
orientation, etc. etc., it also ought to be illegal to discriminate 
against people on the grounds of the operating system they choose to use.

Just imagine - Nokia would be compelled to provide phone sync 
software for kaddressbook as well as outlook. We would have Microsoft 
Office for Linux, which could be very healthy, as it would provide 
some competition for Open Office. Manufacturers of embedded device 
programmers would provide driver software for all operating systems. 
Sales of commercial versions of Qt would go through the roof as 
somebody in Redmond started buying thousands of copies to reduce the 
cost of cross platform support.

Anyway, back the PCB and dreaming of my numbers matching the 
Euromillions draw tomorrow.