[103479] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cypherpunks defeat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes)
Mon Sep 28 03:33:45 1998
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:24:56 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
cc: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199809280358.UAA27338@proxy3.ba.best.com>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>
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
