The insane licensing requirements are where, IMHO, the bottleneck is occurring. Since one cannot sell a jini service without negotiating a license agreement with sun, there will be no rich third-party market of services. Without that, no 'critical mass' of services/applications to give incentive for widespread adoption.
When I read the licensing agreement, it appeared that one would have to negotiate an agreement with sun even to distribute a jini service for free. When I saw that, I just went ahead, put the jini and javaspaces books away, and moved onto the next topic on the crowded tech topics queue.
That's about the only thing interesting about this article: that the Cato Institute would bother to release it at all. Are they really such transparent Chicago school shills that they will argue that a different number than 70,000 would constitute some meaningful difference in evaluating Microsoft's monopoly status? Of course, their agenda is to simply say 'antitrust laws are wrong, lets stop wasting our time', so if they blow smoke like this, in some sense they win, too, I guess...
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When I read the licensing agreement, it appeared that one would have to negotiate an agreement with sun even to distribute a jini service for free. When I saw that, I just went ahead, put the jini and javaspaces books away, and moved onto the next topic on the crowded tech topics queue.
That's about the only thing interesting about this article: that the Cato Institute would bother to release it at all. Are they really such transparent Chicago school shills that they will argue that a different number than 70,000 would constitute some meaningful difference in evaluating Microsoft's monopoly status? Of course, their agenda is to simply say 'antitrust laws are wrong, lets stop wasting our time', so if they blow smoke like this, in some sense they win, too, I guess...