Stages 3

1. I acknowledge that my addiction is unfortunate but not irreversable. 2. I know that my addiction costs my family and work and the Government billions of dollars in software licences and consultancy fees every year, the modern equivalent of setting fire to money while the kids are starving.

the 12 stages of the microsoft addict

3. Microsoft is a dinosour stuck in a tarpit of its own doom voraciously eating everything within its reach. Repeat this every lunchtime. 4. Microsoft is the virus and the sooner I realise this the better. 5. There exists a whole other non-Microsoft universe of software in the Apple OSX and open source realm. I cannot blindly ignore this any longer. 6. Almost all common Microsoft software can be easily replaced by better, more robust software that negates the need for antispam, antiviral and antimalignancy. 7. The network is the key. So is the speed of the network. As the network spreads it is bigger nails in the Microsoft coffin. Repeat twice. 8. I need to be a contributer to digital culture and not just a passive consumer. 9. Digital rights protection and copyright issues are a crock of crap and a whole lot worse than many, many other things. 10. There should be a game called Life Without Oil and I should get used to playing it every hour of every day of every week of every year of the rest of my life. 11. Open Source software is green and recycles. It is made collectively by really smart, geeky people, often with very pointy heads, from all over the world. 12.

My cellphone is already running a version of Linux.