How is this fair?

I don't use a blackberry, I think they're ugly and I really don't need to be connected 24 hours a day, give me a break. But the Government is now crying about the fact that their blackberry connections will be cut due to the lawsuit against RIM, and they want assurances that if blackberry does get shut off, they will be exempt.

Wait a minute! What makes PUBLIC SERVANTS more special than those that pay their salaries? Nobody screamed foul when the Beta VCR went obsolete and left us with a worthless piece of expensive technology. What about all of the other things that went by the wayside with not even a "sorry" after people bought them? Why should the Government be exempt if RIM is wrong and infringed on a patent? Sure it'll be an inconvenience, but they can join the line of the inconvenienced along with all of the non-government users.

Perhaps if the government was inconvenienced they would understand the frustrations of us little people who get "taken" every day by manufacturers who taunt us with big claims and promises, then go obsolete, taking our money with them.

If blackberry goes dark EVERYONE goes dark, not just us little people.