About 10 years ago, a century in IT terms, we watched France from on high as the country clung to the good ship minitel, incapable of seeing the Internet wave that would rapidly relegate that technology to museum status. After all, weren't we in Quebec enjoying a world-class role in the digital imaging and video game fields (remember Softimage) ? Hadn't Quebec Inc managed to produce major IT organizations (CGI, DRM, LGS, etc) in the style of the major engineering firms associated with the construction of the hydroelectric dams? Hadn't the Quebec government