being a sharecropper in your own mind [Re: [conspire] Off Topic: Looking for a Bay Area group that supports Microsoft desktop/laptops.]

[Tony Godshall]

According to Deirdre Saoirse Moen,
> 
> On Dec 13, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Mark S Bilk wrote:
> 
> >Sounds like you want the Church of Satan, but I don't know
> >if they have a branch around here.
> 
> I was just gonna say "Good luck with that" but that *that* sounded  
> too snarky.
...
> Personally, I would rather spend my own valuable volunteer
> time dealing with open source, and that users of legacy proprietary
> operating systems are best referred to paid technical support
> (http://zgp.org/~dmarti/linuxmanship/#enabler), but it's your spare time
> to spend, in this case.

What's the famous quote about how developing an expertise in
proprietary technology is akin to being a sharecropper in
your own mind?

A quick google search found me a nice geek discussion of it here...

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1557256&mode=thread&tid=185

...and it apparently came from this nice rant...

  http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace

...and the original observation by Robb Beal about coding
for the Apple OS...

  http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/06/DC-Day4