But how small does it have to be to be "micro"?
I've bought stuff for less than $1 online, in fact I just did so today. Yeah, it's not fractions of a cent, but a helluvalot cheaper than a gallon of gas (which, I'm told, is about $8 in the UK. Stop your whining, gringos). -T On 5/23/07, Robert Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Following on from our discussion this lunchtime on micropayments, here's an O'Reilly article from 2000: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html Seems to me it makes a good case against micropayments. Given that seven years on they're not exactly common (when I Google them the top hit is for a micropayment company called Sepomo - who?), I'd suggest that the article's case holds up quite well. Robert ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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