On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > If you're near real time, you have lots of options actually. And I > would contend that p2p can be efficient for broadcast distribution > actually. There already are several startups doing exactly that for > large scalability.
Yep. Lots of startups have lots of ideas. If you are selling hammers, you can use the same hammer for lots of projects. But I'm not a true believer in the hammer religion. > No actual end user (other than the geek crowd) will ever care that > it's BitTorrent or whatever. Agreed. But that doesn't mean a > bastardization of the idea won't run underneath. I'm a terrible forecaster. I have no idea how the future will turn out. Sometimes there are several ways to solve a problem.