> No killer feature or guarantee of privacy or distributed solution is going to break the network effect of Facebook or Twitter now. This is a key point. The

> No killer feature or guarantee of privacy or distributed solution is going to break the network effect of Facebook or Twitter now. This is a key point. The reason free software and the open Internet have been able to achieve what they have was due to their first mover advantage. TCP/IP, email, and Linux itself all benefited from network effects. Absent that we would have likely wound up with something like AOL owned by a Baby Bell.