Doug Ludy wrote: > life-enhancing rather that life-threatening? This is a very old > dilemma. I sincerely hope this discussion continues, for trust is > important to me.
But how can you trust a process going on behind closed door and excluding everyone else? Further more how can you trust it when commercial interests involved are usually only involved for the sole purpose of profiteering (which I have nothing against I might add), but when it comes to internet standards Microsoft and other companies have already shown their hands trying to stifle competition by locking new players out of the markets, why would these companies be any different... A classic example of what I'm talking about is the debacle with SPF/Sender ID, MS came into the game a johnny come latelys and tried to control the entire situation through patenting their "innovation", fact of the matter is time and time again these closed talks only lead to the opposite where as open talks tend to lead to a much better outcome for the entire internet so it's not at all surprising these companies want to keep everything hushed until the last minute when they can lock everyone into it. What does surprise me is the mozilla guys falling for this kind of tactic especially given their background, it's completely laudable and against the whole principal that the mozilla foundation is supposedly based on. In the end it will be them who suffers after commercial interests have raped their users for all they think worth while and then ditch them in the proverbial gutter to clean up the mess. Closed talks lead to close standards if not patented ones that only serve to do the entire internet a dis-service. Further more another example of what I'm talking about was with Comodo trying to lock trust bar into their patents, for US businesses this seems to be business as usual, the only thing surprising me is the Mozilla guys falling hook line and sinker for it... No wonder Gerv didn't want blogs and/or slashdot postings about it, it would blow the lid of the entire thing at how Mozilla is selling out it's user base to the same vested commercial interests it's supposed to be an alternative for! -- Best regards, Duane http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://happysnapper.com.au - Sell your photos over the net! http://e164.org - Using Enum.164 to interconnect asterisk servers "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
