>>OK, thanks for the clarification. Sure, I agree that there are people at MS who take this whole "communities" thing at face value. But suddenly it all makes sense what's really going on. I was wondering how long it would take MS to realize that the term .NET just doesn't cut it any more. I mean the association with the .COM fiasco is just too hard to miss, no matter how much money Microsoft wants to throw at it. So they came up with a new term: communities. That sounds a lot more palatable than the thoroughly nauseating "one degree of separation" crapola. I didn't understand what was going on until just now. After all, Microsoft is so fundamentally opposed to any authentic concept of "community", you have to wonder what they're up to. <<

I've been posting some thoughts under a thread called "Print Advertising Wars". I believe it's in the Chatter section. In this thread I've been going over some of the subliminal messages in MSFT's .NET advertising. You may get a kick out of it...

Bill