• To: "Dave Winer" <dave@u...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Traditional RPC
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:15:56 -0800
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• Thread-topic: Traditional RPC

Was that a serious answer? The fact that millions of people communicate
using software that talks a proprietary protocol on the Internet somehow
translates to that being a killer web service platform? 

I guess someone better call Steve Case and tell him he's sitting on an
untapped Web Services gold mine. ;) 

-- 
THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #34
I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@u...] 
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:08 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Traditional RPC
> 
> 
> >>If the Napster protocol is so fantastic why aren't we using 
> it for Web
> Services?
> 
> I'm going to assume this is a serious question.
> 
> The only thing that's fantastic about the Napster protocol 
> was the number of people who used software that communicated 
> using that protocol.
> 
> The reason we're not using it is that Napster went bye-bye.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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