-- On 20 Dec 2001, at 21:00, Steve Schear wrote:
We should all be ashamed. The main reason we don't have the private payment system many have discussed is lazyness/"better things to do with their time" by those with the technical ability to create the SW (if I were one of them the SW would be done by now, as I've easily spent 1-2 many years and $10Ks trying to get others to write the code). Funding the payment system, as Tim has noted, is not that hard.
I have been working on this project for several years, and have not got much done. It is a big project, to do it right, with a user interface that is going to be reasonably usable and intelligible for a casual user, I would say it is about eighteen months full time work if done at home, and if done as a dot com business, a couple of million dollars. Doing it right requires a reasonably competent programmer, someone with experience in producing consumer products. Such people tend to be busy. I have kids to put through college. Because of the illegality of likely applications, this is not a project that bodes well for making a lot of money. This project is the upper edge of what can be done by an enthusiast. Having done it, then comes the scary part -- deploying it. No way can I deploy it -- I have too many assets. Anyone that has the skills and time needed to create this is apt to have too many assets to himself deploy it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG LnKyj9xPCkeKLryKpX/SwS8LghhHga8iIH4aM/Nt 4QLZ88QAqycmHGkE0D0pOXkxpvslDNBdb7dGf/c36