17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, James A. Donald wrote:
We really need an open system, which IBM is not, which goes down to millicent values, which IBM does not, and which supports intermediaries moving aggregated transactions, so that customer and server to not have to be clients of the same intermediary, which IBM does support, and previous proposals for micropayment did not.
--digsig James A. Donald
Sound like we need something like a GPL for digital cash protocols/algorithms. That would keep it from being monopolized by a few power players. Someone has to be working on this. jim