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New document! Distributed Membership and Preferences. "Developers are now faced with a choice -- support Microsoft's membership system, and thereby feed customers to them, or develop an open, clonable and decentralized system, so that membership is a competitive space, not owned by one or two large companies." XNS is on our radar. While I was writing the DMAP article, linked above, I was also emailing with developers of XNS, Adam Engst and Drummond Reed. At the same time Wes was digging into the site, looking for specs, and came up with bupkis. I posted the emails from Engst and Reed on Wes's site. Reed says "Dave's message is revealing that MS must know this is inevitable." That deserves an explanation. In an earlier email that Reed received forwarded from David Strom originally sent to David Farber and Dan Gillmor (hence it was clearly a public utterance), I said "This is one of those places where Microsoft may knowingly be a catalyst. In 1997 I had numerous meetings, emails and phone conversations with Microsoft people about exactly this issue. It's possible that they would support a decentralized approach, but realistically, until they moved, there would have never been a critical mass of interest in solving this problem." US News: "Chairman Bill Gates, a bridge enthusiast, has never been one to show all his cards." Robert Loch: "Hailstorm can be described as a lot of things. Me? I would characterise it as the most ambitions attempt ever by a wolf to slip into sheep clothing." Talking Moose: "I'm just a stupid old Moose sitting in a mud bog in Wyoming. What do I know?" Move your moose around on Don Hopkins' Run On Sentence.
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