What did REBOL come up with to achieve the ubiquity survival demands?
REBOL, Inc struck a deal with Morpheus - the leading p2p file sharing application - to rewrite the next version of their client in REBOL. This deal struck me as utterly sublime. REBOL gets their runtime on 40 million desktops, and each desktop comes with a username and password combination. In a stroke they actually leap far ahead of Passport and .NET in terms of user base. There were rumors about building in the Groove-like capability for mobile-code application and data sharing, but nothing was announced.
I was excited.
The only problem now (3/02) appears to be that Morpheus is displaying the affect of a seedy opportunist with little in the way of a business model, and will probably be shut down by a lawsuit sooner or later. So much for a sublime idea.
If only later came after REBOL released their code... I think it would be worth the threat of Morpheus not actually paying them for it, and the threat of being sued by the music industry for assisting music pirates.
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