IP: Clay Shirky's analysis of Microsoft Hailstorm

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:01:42 -0700
>From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim@oreilly.com>
>
>Clay Shirky has a very interesting article on Hailstorm on OpenP2P.com,
>at http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/05/30/hailstorm.html
>
>He looks especially at how MS mixes decentralization and open access on
>the client side with strong control of third party development and user
>data. He explains how we should think of it as an
>authentication-centric, rather than hardware-centric system.
>
>I'm the publisher of openp2p.com, but I'm just speaking as a reader when
>I say that this is one of the most insightful
>technology-as-business-strategy analyses I've ever read.  And it's very
>topical, since the development of the next generation "internet
>operating system" is one of the key computer industry battlegrounds
>right now.
>
>
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