27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
11:18 p.m.
On 10/26/05, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote:
Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and thus are subject to what economists call "network externalities". The best example I can think of is Microsoft Office file formats. I don't buy MS Office because it's the best software at creating documents, but I have to buy it because the person in HR insists on making our timecards in Excel format.
1) You have told your HR person what a bad idea it is to introduce a dependency on a proprietary file format, right?
This is off-topic. Let's not degenerate into random Microsoft bashing. Keep the focus on anonymity. That's what the cypherpunks list is about. CP