one of the reasons i switched back to redhat was that packages moved very slowly through the debian system. i just check on gnucash at debian.org and for the stable and testing it lists 1.3.4 as the version available with testing at 1.6.4 and when i check at gnucash.org i see that 1.6.0 was released 10-6-01 over 4 months ago and yet a serch of packages at debian.org does not even show 1.4 for the stable release. is it stable or stagnent??
Eventualy it will happen. but i don't think it will happen as international agrement deal, Ithink it will start at places that host multiple web sites that will be looking for to move away an advetising based income and will probable first offer it as banner free alternative to its readers. Then they will probable add in the ability for the payment system at one site to be used at all the site they host, ie if you make a 10 dollar deposit for siteA on hostA you will also b able to draw from it while on siteB on HostA.
After the enevitable bugs get worked out and they gain unuf acceptance to be profitable and more move to use this system then you will start to see agrement between site that will alow you to pay at siteA on hostA and be able to draw on it at SiteB on hostB and then perhapse even see the formation
of some kind of trade group to work out standards
and rules to make it easer for new sites to join.
as for the prediction that sites will split up thier pages more to get more money, yes i think that will be a problem in the short run but as most people will be more consuse of spending money than they are of spending time (as in dealing with banners) that you will eventualy see a shift to sites that offer more content per page and go for having more viewers reading a few pages cheaply rather than a few viewers reading a lot of pages expensively.
i also think that search engines will be exemted from payments at these site or they will find that they will just be exclude from the search engines and will have to pay to have there sites advertised by alternate meanse (some Quite expensive), a possible exeption would be search engines that offer cached vertions of the pages, but the simplist thing to do would be to stop offering cached pages.
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one of the reasons i switched back to redhat was that packages moved very slowly through the debian system. i just check on gnucash at debian.org and for the stable and testing it lists 1.3.4 as the version available with testing at 1.6.4 and when i check at gnucash.org i see that 1.6.0 was released 10-6-01 over 4 months ago and yet a serch of packages at debian.org does not even show 1.4 for the stable release. is it stable or stagnent??
Eventualy it will happen. but i don't think it will happen as international agrement deal, Ithink it will start at places that host multiple web sites that will be looking for to move away an advetising based income and will probable first offer it as banner free alternative to its readers. Then they will probable add in the ability for the payment system at one site to be used at all the site they host, ie if you make a 10 dollar deposit for siteA on hostA you will also b able to draw from it while on siteB on HostA.
After the enevitable bugs get worked out and they gain unuf acceptance to be profitable and more move to use this system then you will start to see agrement between site that will alow you to pay at siteA on hostA and be able to draw on it at SiteB on hostB and then perhapse even see the formation
of some kind of trade group to work out standards
and rules to make it easer for new sites to join.
as for the prediction that sites will split up thier pages more to get more money, yes i think that will be a problem in the short run but as most people will be more consuse of spending money than they are of spending time (as in dealing with banners) that you will eventualy see a shift to sites that offer more content per page and go for having more viewers reading a few pages cheaply rather than a few viewers reading a lot of pages expensively.
i also think that search engines will be exemted from payments at these site or they will find that they will just be exclude from the search engines and will have to pay to have there sites advertised by alternate meanse (some Quite expensive), a possible exeption would be search engines that offer cached vertions of the pages, but the simplist thing to do would be to stop offering cached pages.
Wayne.
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