David Taffs writes
Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but how can we fight the infrastructure battle? I'm sore afraid that our brand of crypto is like trying to peddle a new OS to compete with Unix/NT/... -- it just ain't real easy to displace a "standard", flawed though it may be...
Any ideas are welcome -- I'm just running a little low now.
Obviously the rest of the world is not going to accept a standard crippled for the convenience of any one government. If 2.6 is deliberately incompatible, I predict that it will fail. Remember how IBM failed when it tried to change the PC standard. Remember the great Apple III flop. In the unlikely event that "Cypherpunks write code" then cypherpunks will control the standard. It really is that easy.i Standards are set by good products, not by governments or big companies.. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves and our James A. Donald | property, because of the kind of animals that we | are. True law derives from this right, not from jamesd@netcom.com | the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.