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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: David who wrote (26727)4/21/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
That's an awfully narrow perspective on the subject. I would take a closer look at the context of the testimony before taking a shot at this...

From what I gathered, the testimony was more of a show of what SOME companies are doing to combat the problem of privacy and not leave it to be "governed" by a group of people who desperately need a reason to start legislating something beyond their control.

Let's face it, if it was someone from (dare I say) MSFT? would you have posted the same comment?

I believe that this whole medium (the web et al) was created by some pretty smart and enlightened people. These same people will find ways (either through technology alone or combined with defined basic "liberties" ) to make it a safe world for everyone.

I don't think the privacy issue is new or just an "internet" problem. This has been going on for YEARS. The Internet has merely brought it to everyone's attention. People have been making money off of our information for decades, finally we're realizing what the real consequences are even in this "free" society of ours.

Let's at least applaud Novell for thinking of this idea and then designing a system to make it work. Not only that but they are fairly humble about it (they don't even want to own the world, imagine that!).

digitalme is in my mind the ONLY software developed with the end-user's privacy in mind. OK, not so much privacy as the central ideal but rather a way to control what people see and know about you. It allows you to be "human" in a world where the qualities that make us who we are don't shine through easily.

You can't go out there and say the same thing for much else. NOVL took an immediate problem (how to create and define an identity in a medium that doesn't lend itself to the traditional methods?) AND make it secure and empowering....ok, maybe that last stuff was more a by-product of the design but it's there :)

Either way, this is the first software were the company has literally said that the END-USER would control everything related to their identity. They would develop the framework to sell to enterprising companies or individuals and then leave the "power" to the user.

It's quite heady stuff when you really look at it. I think the message (or testimony) needs a more public forum than what it has received so far. We'll be seeing and hearing more and more about digitalme - the real thunder will be when the mass media really gets a good look (and testdrive) of digitalme - I'm waiting for COMDEX and 200,000+ convention goers using digitalme and Novell's Connecting Points :)

Peter J Strifas
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