let us remember, today, that project gutenberg
started off with the declaration of independence,
and that it itself _was_ indeed such a declaration.
michael's idea was that we didn't need anybody else.
no big companies... no grants... no "deep pockets"...
just one copy of one book, and a keyboard to type on.
hallelujah, mr. hart. thank you for opening our eyes...
***
i developed my "zero markup language" _for_ p.g.
i knew it had ramifications far beyond this project,
but i didn't care all that much, not for a long time.
alas, due to a bunch of idiots here (you know who
you are, and so does everybody else), the interest
in using my system here wasn't allowed to blossom.
so all of my fruit just sat there, unused, on the vine.
as of today, however, i hereby declare my independence.
i'll be taking my work wide, and leaving p.g. far behind.
we'll see if the world is smarter than your small minds...
i'll monitor this list, and remind you, from time to time,
how stupid you were to ignore what i had to teach you,
so we are not, by any stretch of imagination, "through".
but we're most definitely now _independent_, thank you.
have a nice day. enjoy the fireworks.
-bowerbird
p.s. free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, i'm free at last.
