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> Funnily enough, I am actually in complete agreement with you.  When I
> said "The Way of the Future" -- that should be read with a certain degree
> of irony.  No one is going to remove the simpler ways of doing this stuff
> any time soon, because the simple way is the right way for the vast majority

well i told this because removing simple tools was quite common in 
many systems "just because".

Good example is removing rsh/rshd/telnet/telnetd from most linux distros 
because "they are insecure. period." :)