At 7:30 PM -0500 on 6/15/02, measl@mfn.org wrote:
With all due respect, if this were [yet] true, I submit it would be happening.
What, "if we lived here, we'd be home now"? :-). Not necessarily. It just costs too much to do. Yet. That's why I say "risk adjusted transaction cost" so much. :-). Sooner or later, the accumulated code base, and falling semiconductor prices will overcome the lawyer's threats, and the banker's fear, greed will set in, and nature will take its course. Be nice to make it happen faster, though, certainly. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'