kI was reading http://www.frankston.com/public/?name=20140717-0146 and one point
it makes that I poorly articulated when we were talking about the Tragedy of the
Commons is the fact that this is countered by the benefits of the Network
Effect.
The more systems you can connect to, the more valuable the network is.
Compuserv, Protigy, AOL all started out as closed networks, providing all the
value internally, nowdays the idea that you would only be able to get to some
data if you were signed up to the right network is something that people would
have trouble comprehending. AOL barely survived as a fairly generic ISP and the
rest of those big networks are now long gone. Their users discovered the
Internet and demanded access to it.
David Lang
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