modulating barriers to access

[Todd Boyle]

Hi Eric,

Yeah but you have not addressed my *most fundamental point.*
The website indicates SWN has not grown in years.  There
are perhaps a few tens of nodes.  Meanwhile there are
4 million living in puget sound region.  Most households
have internet and around here most have cellphones too.
Since SWN emerged at least 1 million people have started,
or switched to, some wireless or broadband account, the
turnover is huge and virtually none of them put up an SWN node.

I said, there are at least 3 theories,

> > There's
> >  - the chicken-and-egg theory,
> >  - the negative-value-proposition theory, and
> >  - the technical-hurdles-for-nongeeks theory.

Your post chooses the chicken and egg theory, urging people
to install an SWN node.   The commercial Internet services
don't need selling, or evangelism, they sell themselves because
there is content and there are applications.

I said the problem is NOT chicken-and-egg.  The problem is
that participating in SWN network is a negative value proposition
for almost all of the 4 million people, today.

You never explain why people should install SWN nodes.
I even had the generosity to explain some incentives that would
create value, if they were turnkey and worked out of the box.
The burden of explaining the benefits is on SWN not the
newcomer.

Kind regards

Todd

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