Thanks for those posts, Marty. If nothing else, that article is something to kick around while we wait. I have to say that in spite of the critical slant of the article, I had the distinct feeling reading it that I was getting a preview into the future of the WaveMeter. The phrase I liked most: "Information Utility." That's right out of the Wave handbook. Utilities need meters.
I think that in spite of how negative it is on the topic, the article actually does more to promote the topic than to dissuade us from it, simply by highlighting what a big big push it's going to get. And he gets a bunch of stuff just plain wrong. His concept of how software would be rented, for instance, seems to be modeled on a client-server system in which the software -- and your DATA -- stays on the server and you have to depend on someone else for its security. If that were the case, this would be a losing system. If, on the other hand, there were a way that you could keep the software and your data on your own PC and unlock it by the day or hour or on a pay-per-use basis. Hmmm.... |
