At 6:44 AM 11/30/95, sameer wrote:
http://www.cnet.com/Central/News/govt.html
Bad. Very Bad. And I was almost starting to like Netscape.
Thank you Sameer for pointing this out. Jim Clark is actively working for the enemies of liberty and freedom. Consider this quote: "To secure Net communications, the government will need to have access to private data exchanges using what is known as a key escrow security system, said Clark. He added that an invincible security system for the Net is possible, but such a system won't be built unless the government has a stake in it. "That's where key escrow comes in," said Clark." Note that this is beyond the "watered down" forms of "commercial key escrow" that many advocates of forms of key escrow often like to talk about (such as the nominally voluntary schemes espoused by TIS). This speech by Clark is actually closer to the real truth of key escrow that we normally here from public speakers: the government will need to have access, therefore the key escrow will be mandatory, not voluntary. Can Netscape continue to prosper? This latest issue won't kill it, naturally, but I doubt a $5 billion market capitalization can persist when a company has no technology that cannot be duplicated or bettered by others. As an example, I use Netscape to do certain things, Eudora to do other things, and Newswatcher to do still other things...I will switch to an improved Web browser _much_ faster than I will switch to a new word processor. I don't see much "staying power" inherent in Netscape's browser, so I can't see how the company can maintain a market capitalization greater than that of General Dynamics, CBS, and Apple. I wonder what discussions Jim Clark has been having with the Feds? --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."