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Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Sun, 22 September 2013 11:02 UTC

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    > From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>

    > Except that essentially all services other than email have gained
    > popularity in centralized form, including IM. So there appear to be
    > some important and difficult operational and usability barriers,
    > standing in the way of more truly distributed applications.

Yes. $$$. Nobody makes much/any money off email because it is so
de-centralized. People who build wonderful new applications build them in a
centralized way so that they can control them. And they want to control them
so that they can monetize them.

	Noel

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