Cypherpunks defeat?

[Jim Burnes]

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