-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:52:17PM -0500, Faustine wrote:
So maybe it's worth putting a little effort into thinking of ways to AOLize (for lack of a better term) digital cash: a mass market reqires mass appeal.
What a good idea! Bet nobody thought of that before!
So why are so many people making the same mistakes and feeling shocked and indignant when they end up with the same results, i,e. failure? Getting away fron digital cash for a moment, If you'd care to point me to any examples of crypto companies really focused and committed to developing applications that are commercially appealing to Joe Sixpack AOLuser, I'd be interested to hear about them. Is it really such a stretch to say that most people in the crypto community don't really give a damn about Joe wants or needs? How many times have you heard people here implicitly echo the sentiment: "If they're too lazy or stupid to get it, then screw em." Maybe the technology isn't far enough along to waste time worrying about Joe at all. But the disdain so many "high priests of the code" seem to feel towards the uninitiated might go a long way toward explaining why revenues aren't all they could be. ~Faustine. *** The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBO/c4L/g5Tuca7bfvEQJu8ACeNketT3BvxyEyP93k5X9GyMOPQZ8AoOG7 BGLr2t/Ns7BKyzIq2Gei3UuK =HP8m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----