Very interesting -- for my prior post, I had written another few paragraphs on the need for a public micropayments clearinghouse and how well it would support f

Very interesting -- for my prior post, I had written another few paragraphs on the need for a public micropayments clearinghouse and how well it would support free-as-in-speech software and media, but then deleted them as veering too far off-topic. (I'm glad you posted yours.) Why limit the clearinghouse to free content and techy interests? Why couldn't other publishers use it, especially those whose products are too cheap per unit to charge for them one at a time such as newspaper articles? I see your ideas on that and on search (a very interesting idea) as ways Mozilla can leverage their very valuable asset, user trust. Essentially Firefox would morph into a client for many services. But we are getting very far ahead of reality ...