From: dwayne (dwayne@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 20:06:14 MST
Reason wrote:
> Be interesting to see where it all goes, even if the company is steaming
> merrily along to be clouted by someone who treats their customers better.
> You actually have the inklings of a micropay/barter system here with enough
> users to really make a go of it. People pay for what they download in
> processor time -- zap, simple, uses what you have, huge userbase to build
> on, none of this messing around with annoying intermediaries like money for
> anything other than a yardstick.
It *could* be really cool, there were 1.4 million users connected last night,
and that makes for some hefty processing power, large user base etc., rah rah
rah.
But, you just know that they are going to do something evil and dodgy with it,
because, sigh, that's how the internet works these days. Mind you, they are
australian, so if they are *really* evil we can go pay them a visit :)
I'd like to see it fired up into some vast distributed operating system which
the users can make use of, run inferno over it or something, but I suspect my
system will be crippled by some proprietary widget doing god knows what.
Dwayne
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