Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Tom Poe wrote: > >> Mike Miller wrote: >> - - - snip - - - > > Mike Miller wrote "snip"? > > >> Telecommunications covers a whole range of software, and I tend to >> think of any software as participating at some level of >> telecommunications. It's an assumption I might have expressed at the >> beginning of my response. > > But you are wrong. Software can do anything and telecommunications is > just one small area for software application. > > >> I thought your question about the relevance of my reference to social >> entrepreneurship was a good point. >> >> Suppose we lived in a world where social entrepreneurship was the norm. > > What is "social entrepeneurship?" > > Mike > Wikipedia covers it nicely. Type in the keywords, social entrepreneurship wikipedia, into your favorite search engine. Well worth a couple minutes to check it out. Well, I'll object to your "wrong" label. I can't think of one application meant to do something other than communicate. We could possibly discuss how far the transmission has to go to be telecommunicated. Are you thinking about a particular application that doesn't participate in communication, or telecommunication? Tom