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Actually, that is *exactly* what Steve Case is thinking. The thing that
was remarkable about Napster was how quickly Sean Fanning was able to
move from nothing to a practical monopoly in such a short time -- all
without paying an ounce of attention to the standards. So I think that
Dave's point is that predicting a system's demise based on its adherence
(or lack of) to standards, is not very reliable. Napster died because
it stepped on the toes of the media companies, not because it had a poor
record of working in standards organizations.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:16 PM
> To: Dave Winer; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Traditional RPC
>
> Was that a serious answer? The fact that millions of people
communicate
> using software that talks a proprietary protocol on the Internet
somehow
> translates to that being a killer web service platform?
>
> I guess someone better call Steve Case and tell him he's sitting on an
> untapped Web Services gold mine. ;)
>
> --
> THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #34
> I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:08 PM
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Traditional RPC
> >
> >
> > >>If the Napster protocol is so fantastic why aren't we using
> > it for Web
> > Services?
> >
> > I'm going to assume this is a serious question.
> >
> > The only thing that's fantastic about the Napster protocol
> > was the number of people who used software that communicated
> > using that protocol.
> >
> > The reason we're not using it is that Napster went bye-bye.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
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