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Ian G <iang@systemics.com> 2/2/2005 6:38:46 PM >>> I'm just curious on this point. I haven't seen much to indicate that Microsoft and others are ready for a nymous, tradeable software assets world.

No, and neither are corporate customers, to a large extent. Accountability is, in fact, a treasured property of business computing. Lack of accountability creates things like Enron, Anderson Consulting, Oil-for-Food scams, and the missing 9 billion dollars or so of reconstruction aid. It's the fuel that propells SPAM, graft, and identity theft. What I've not seen is much work providing accountability for anonymous transactions. It's a shame people persist in thinking a single solution will satify everyone, as though computing was somehow different from everything else in life. Ed