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		<outline text="&lt;i&gt;New document!&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1780&quot;&gt;Distributed Membership and Preferences&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Developers are now faced with a choice -- support Microsoft's membership system, and thereby feed customers to them, or develop an open, clonable and decentralized system, so that membership is a competitive space, not owned by one or two large companies.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xns.org/&quot;&gt;XNS&lt;/a&gt; is on our radar. While I was writing the DMAP article, linked above, I was also emailing with developers of XNS, Adam Engst and Drummond Reed. At the same time &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmf.editthispage.com/&quot;&gt;Wes&lt;/a&gt; was digging into the site, looking for specs, and came up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980302&quot;&gt;bupkis&lt;/a&gt;. I posted the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmf.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$4880?mode=day&quot;&gt;emails&lt;/a&gt; from Engst and Reed on Wes's site."/>
		<outline text="Reed says &quot;Dave's message is revealing that MS must know this is inevitable.&quot; That deserves an explanation. In an earlier email that Reed received forwarded from David Strom originally sent to David Farber and Dan Gillmor (hence it was clearly a public utterance), I said &quot;This is one of those places where Microsoft may knowingly be a catalyst. In 1997 I had numerous meetings, emails and phone conversations with Microsoft people about exactly this issue. It's possible that they would support a decentralized approach, but realistically, until they moved, there would have never been a critical mass of interest in solving this problem.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010723/biztech/micro.htm&quot;&gt;US News&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Chairman Bill Gates, a bridge enthusiast, has never been one to show all his cards.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dotcomscoop.com/wtaw711.html&quot;&gt;Robert Loch&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Hailstorm can be described as a lot of things. Me? I would characterise it as the most ambitions attempt ever by a wolf to slip into sheep clothing.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1790?mode=day&quot;&gt;Talking Moose&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I'm just a stupid old Moose sitting in a mud bog in Wyoming. What do I know?&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Move your moose around on Don Hopkins' &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.piemenu.com/runonsentence.html&quot;&gt;Run On Sentence&lt;/a&gt;."/>
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