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• Subject: Re: Facts to Support RAND? was: Re: more pate nt fun
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:24:57 +1100
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> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> > At 9:30 AM -0800 1/17/03, Tim Bray wrote:
> >
> > > The notion that you can make money by setting up a tollbooth on a
> > > piece of Web infrastructure (and thereby driving out all
> > > open-source/free offerings as a side-effect) is a radical proposal
> > > without even an existence proof.
> >
> >
> > Would either Flash or RealAudio qualify as an existence proof? If not,
> > why not?

I don't think so, because Tim's "Tollbooth" implies a monopoly: that it is the only
way to get onto the highway.    There are multiple graphics formats, so people
can go round a tollbooth established there.  Similarly with audio and streaming.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

• References:
  • RE: Facts to Support RAND? was: Re: more patent fun
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • Re: Facts to Support RAND? was: Re: more patent fun
    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • Re: Facts to Support RAND? was: Re: more pate nt fun
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: Facts to Support RAND? was: Re: more pate nt fun
    • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>

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