Yeah; okay, point taken. But on the other hand, it seems short-sighted to assume that because a company has already taken a dominant position that nothing else will ever challenge that. Remember IBM?

Hah; good old ACS. Actually, I had an idea for a mechanism for a *truly* distributed (almost P2P) social networking system a few years ago that I never got around to mocking up a prototype for. It would never have caught on, either, because it required too much technical knowledge. But it used some fabulous encryption to ensure that your data was safe, which was nice. Anyway; another day, another dream.