I went into reading about this very skeptical. I've been part of a few "no-subscription" virtual worlds aimed at kids, and watched a bunch of inventive and creative kids be horribly disappointed when the companies (I'm looking at you, Disney) pulled the plug on them.
But from the rather poor write-ups I'm finding, it sounds like this is Open Source, so even if its pulled there is still use for it.
Care to actually tell us more about the platform?
The concept of "local power" was first advocated by... Thomas Edison. He was advocating small power stations all around a municipality for local distribution via his DC-based systems.
Westinghouse's AC system, however, allowed for transmission of power great distances. Despite using his name, and some patents, most of what we use today owes more to Westinghouse than Edison.
Sounds like the "go local" movement is gaining strength when it comes to power generation, too. Wonder if we'll be able to go back to DC? Probably not.
Heh... someone score that post up as funny, please. {:
I'm not sure if its "supply and demand" or just "demand". It sounds like the argument is that the supply is, currently, not a limiting factor.
You know, we sound pretty lame when we start talking about "insufficient competition".
At first, it was just "monopolies" that were bad.
Then we started talking about how cable and telephone companies, although competing against each other, didn't provide "enough" choices for consumers.
Now we're saying that seven four cell companies aren't enough competition for each other. And we point out as evidence that they're all doing essentially the same thing to rake money in hand over fist.
Don't get me wrong - I think that text prices are, from a consumers point of view, stupidly high. But it sure doesn't sound like adding more companies to the mix is actually fixing the problem.
So perhaps the problem isn't them.
Perhaps the problem is us.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.