[LINK] Microsoft cops standards attack

[Roger Clarke]

Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au>:
>Microsoft cops standards attack
>http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39188761,00.htm

Great article, thanks Bernard (and I even walked past the door of the 
conference today, without sampling the papers ...).

But the quote?

>I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the
>clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens
>for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.
>-- Damon Runyon
====>            (1884-1946)
American short-story writer and humorist, companion to Al Capone, 
Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Arnold Rothstein and Walter Winchell - 
legendary reporter who gained fame with his tales of the gambling, 
racing and criminal world ...
(tanks ta da Finn!  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/runyon.htm )

But what proportion of today's Dads would know what the concept of 
changing a nappy is?

Cloth?  Wash it??  They used to do *that*???

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