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?
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