... Hash: SHA1 "Like the Internet itself, peer to peer is settling into a second, more prosaic stage following the bubble of excitement that seemed to stand...
... Hash: SHA1 ... OK... I will tear it apart :) ... <snip/> Says who? You? I work on Open Source because I am greedy. Most of the project I work on WON'T...
... Hash: SHA1 ... If the FSF is a form of socialism then what would you call the proptietary model. AKA Microsoft? This is MUCH worse. ... That is very far...
... It's easy -- just ignore away all the complexities. <rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-at-own-joke/> Among which: 1) Approach to sharing royalties: divvy up...
... Where ya gonna spend it? No place fun. You go down to Billy Bob's Credit Hut, submit to the usual financial rectal scan of...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 1, 2002 5:45 pm
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Clay, The fallacy with your argument is it seems to assume that in a world with digital cash other forms of money are vanquished. I see this possibility as...
... That's not digital cash. That's digital tokens. You have the illusion that its cash, which the MTA likes, but in fact they deposited your cash some weeks...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 1, 2002 6:19 pm
4889
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I appreciate the criticism. Maybe I should've let my mom read it first. At least I'd've started the new year with a little...
... You might have to pick aspects of a product. For example, on a Linux distribution, you might leave the smaller non-desktop packages like binutils out of...
At 07:28 AM 1/1/02, Lucas Gonze enumerated 4 options. ... The democratic license seems to me, to be very similar to any other commercial partnership agreement....
Caveat: every time we go down this eCash road, my sorry programmer ass has to try to make one semester of economics do the work of a doctorate. Caveat way ...
... Why dilute existing shereholders? One could think of two ways to not do that (a) UPO or uniform public offering is allowed by the SEC every year upto a...
... And the argument isnt always true. Consider the case of developing countries where (a) credit systems are weak because of culture and in poor parts, the...
(rahul wrote: ) ... Now that's a very useful bit of info. I'm going to look into that before I talk to the next VC. Thanks. (todd wrote: ) ... Wow, very good...
Josh
josh@...
Jan 1, 2002 11:11 pm
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... Hash: SHA1 "Lucas Gonze" <lucas@...> writes: <snip/> ... <snip/> I have thought about this in the past. Your above description is a a really good...
... Hash: SHA1 ... <snip/> I like Open Corporations a lot better. <snip/> ... <snip/> I think you will have much better luck. There are some very smart people...
... Hash: SHA1 Todd Boyle <tboyle@...> writes: <snip/> ... <snip/> Why do you assume that no one is working on Reptuation. We are at OpenPrivacy, the...
... I'm not assuming no one is working on reputation. I'm assuming most of the work currently going on will fail, and that the reputation systems we end up...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 2, 2002 1:06 am
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... Yes. ... This I doubt. I think that in situations where people want to use cash, they will use cash. Digital cash raises too many infrastructure ...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 2, 2002 1:12 am
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... The above paragraph I believe, illustrates a lack of understanding of today's digital cash which is, the gold-backed currencies. There is no other digital...
... My case is that digital cash won't happen, for something like these reasons, but I'd re-order the argument thusly: Digital cash, as first exemplified by...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 2, 2002 1:55 am
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... No. Digital cash does not do this, because it does not exist. The thing that allows the settlement of large sums is a credit or debit card. ... Absolutely....
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 2, 2002 2:20 am
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... Depends. If you lose the card, do you lose the value on the card or not? If the answer is Yes, its digital cash. If the answer is No, then its just the...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 2, 2002 2:21 am
4906
... I'm not arguing against cash. I use it every day. ... Are you in a position to understand that, if digital cash's adoption requires even a fraction of that...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 2, 2002 2:25 am
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Lucas, ... In the small software company I'm part owner of we have always worked on a author-royalty basis. For small projects - that's most of them since we...
... Note that the management of one's finanaces is not only possible now with debit cards, it seems to be feuling their astonishing rise: "Any place that will...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jan 2, 2002 2:57 am
4909
... Yeah, that strikes me as completely cluesome, Zane, and it's pretty much the only solution I can think of, but there's no way to apply it here. An open...
... [snip] ... I wasn't suggesting it too seriously; I just wanted to throw out an example for you to tear apart. After reading your analysis I remember why a...
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