"If there is anything that we've learned from Napster, it is that peer-to-peer is a power paradigm for user empowerment on the Internet. Whether this empowerment is Gnutella or Java Beans or Bonobo objects or (forbid) Microsoft .NET (to-be-invented), to be a peer on the Internet means being a service provider. Anything less is second-class citizenship."
FULL STORY @ OSOPINION (http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/7699.html)