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About Javien in your table: Yeah, we musta went to different Javien sites. Yeah, maybe they've got two sites, and they sniff your browser and serve up different ones. Yeah, it's all a disinformation campaign by The Zurich Gnomes to keep micropayments out of the picture! Time for my medication alread...

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Perhaps this belongs over in the "micropayments" thread, but it's had no new real input since the end of May, and we seem to be jumping here, so hit me with the clown-hammer if I'm off topic. In that thread, they were talking about New Gen Payment Systems and Cartio (Cartio s...

Subscriptions I'm not sure discussing subscriptions is germane. Magazines discount subscriptions because they can 1) get their money up front and plan their fiscal year; 2) ship large numbers of magazines to a single location for processing; 3) avoid the financial risk of sending a magazine to a ne...

Ok, let me see if I've got this right. Basically, you have one particularly model you believe in ("p2p [m]upay"), and you're responding to a number of my criticisms on that basis. I think I was making the mistake of trying to defend my criticisms in general instead of just on that specific point. Y...

About the 1997 MS micropayment article-- You've all hit it exactly. Their complaints are sociological, not technical. It's not that it can't be done, it's that no one at Microsoft wants it to be done; therefore, it's impossible. Except that Oceania is now allied with Eastasia and not those other scu...

I think MS is talking out of both sides of its mouth. In 1997, it said

http://slate.msn.com/CriticalMass/97-02 ... alMass.asp

and note there are NO--and I mean NO--technical hurdles in this critique. But MS is still against it.

Read it and see what you think.

cjs

I drew the line about getting more usernames and passwords a year or two ago. I hear you, man. 1: Users don't want to pay for content...It's certainly not a binary question, but that's the thrust of the argument: if there is both free and non-free content, some people worry that most people will st...

First, I prefer the abbreviation mupay to upay for several reasons. One, we can make a zen joke on the koan "What is mu?" Koans are supposed to defeat all logical thinking, which talking about micropayments seems to do. Two, we can say moopay for everyone who is either bullish on or bullheaded about...

I have a reply to Sean's deal--well done, BTW--but it's getting larger and larger. I'm still wet behind the ears here, so give me an idea of how long is too long. He's called up a lot of talking points, and I'm answering them all, the gods help me.

cjs