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To: Clappy who wrote (59)	6/6/2000 9:12:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

CG, (Can I call you Eric?), thanks, and you're a good sport. Listen Eric, every since this last exercise with Stephen King's Bullet distribution over the 'net, I've been wondering about the copyrighting and protections issues. Simom and S. has this to say:... , Gates has this to say:... , and McGraw Hill has this to say:... And has Napster taught us something yet, that we can now take to the bank as a final view of where this whole royalty issue is going? It's all very exciting, and at the same time vague (at least to me) how "standards" are going to be derived, much less how a proprietary brew of software which has been in the pot (actually it has been) boiling for several years. Do you see where I'm coming from? I would welcome more discussion from you and others on this topic. In particular, maybe we can discuss how implementing a set of tools based on open standards for many of these targeted application spaces. Would that be a better idea? For example, using off the shelf utilities and applications out of the IETF RFC tool box (or creating new ones which build on those), as opposed to long-in-the-tooth proprietary approaches at this stage? What was a marvelous idea 24 or 30 months ago due to some new instruction handling capabilities of this or that chip set at that time, has now been subsumed by this new light-speed chip which works on low octane chromosphores that not only does what the old idea did, but also ... and in an open environment, to boot! See where I'm coming from? I don't know that to be fact, btw, only asking the question. And this has to do with all vendors of application software and systems, not only the one which you've brought to the fore. FAC