I never scoff at the occasional bit of serendipity, but I may laugh heartily at it. After Cary Lu's article, "Computing's Holy War," in TidBITS-283, the online version of Dilbert began to cover much the same topic. "What's Dilbert?" you ask. Check out the URL below, and then look at the cartoons in the two-week archive starting with the 950622 file. [ACE]
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