- From: <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 20:49:11 -0700
- To: lcrocker@calweb.com, ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu
- Cc: s-ping@orange.cv.tottori-u.ac.jp, www-talk@w3.org
[decoupled from www-html] Writes Simon: Actually, there already is a move to organise the WWW; the International Workers of the World Wide Web, or Webblies Unlike wwwworkers, wwwusers have the luxury of telling "the man" to shove off without penalty of hunger--its as easy as F-T-P. Although I abhor the "consumer" label, I'd see this as closer to Consumer Reports or Underwriters Laboratories than a labor union. But I'd always prefered Computer Programmers Union--CPU when it came to organizing our ilk, but have found success against the unsavory and unwise employer with the wildcat technique in recent years. -marc Apologies to Billy Bragg...Mangled from "There is Power in a Union" 1986. There is power in a standard Power in a faq Power in the mouse of the user But it all amounts to <BLINK> if together we don't link There is power in a Union Now the lessons of the past were learned with EBCDIC's blood The errors of .com's we must pay for From the formats to the protocols to the PR full of mud Propriet'ry has been the bosses way, sir. The Union persistent, defending cyber-rights Down with the brain-dead, web users unite! With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands There is power in a Union Now I long for the morning (GMT) that they realize Slick brain-dead extensions cannot keep our data tied But who'll defend the users who cannot organize When the bosses redirect their lackeys out to bleat at us? Money speaks for Money, The Devil for his own But who synths' speech for the skin and the bone? What a method to the anchor, a REL to the link. There is power in a Union! The Union persistent, defending cyber rights Down with the brain-dead, web users Unite! With our global virtual siblings together we will surf There is power in a Union.
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