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And the bugs. And Bill Gates's famous phony speech about being remorseful about the misery he'd caused the world through his software. And Trustworthy Computing gradually took on the form of yet another Belgian Blue cash cow - Bill was going to make people pay for bug fixes (remember when he told that German e-zine how silly it was to expect upgrades to fix bugs?) and he was going to yank at the carpet under the users' feet at will, just to keep them unsettled and never sure what operating system they were running.

Bill is trying to control the world from Redmond. What an unlikely place. And yet from this Morlock compound Bill is now planning to have a worldwide evil Windows XP update. And every XP machine anywhere, as soon as it connects to the Internet, will be victimised. Power. Meglomania. Leaving the user with exactly what?

Some users stand outside the entrance to the Morlocks' compound; they've survived so far. Yet the next time the siren sounds they might be the first to enter.

When people resist they give us hope: they're exercising their gray matter, showing us they have minds of their own. And yet - and hasn't it always been this way - as soon as the siren sounds, these same people who spoke out so vociferiously against the System of Evil go marching off to their computer stores and submit to the upgrade.