imagine if every word....  in 15 words or less, can someone explain how this product is less offensive to the world than this one?  ActiveWords changes every single word on my screen into a link to someone elses content... Is there a platform for extensibility?  Can I distribute my own extension to activeWords, that directs users to my content when they click on a certain word? As a corporation, how much will it cost me to develop custom, internal ActiveWords? the SmartTag SDK is free, and anyone can use it to create smartTags that can be distributed to everyone else for free.....By chrisca208@msn.com. [Objective]

One came from Microsoft and the other doesn't.
It doesn't matter if it was a technology for other people to build on. It doesn't matter that it was on or off by the choice of the end user. Nothing in the design could have mitigated the fear that people had of Microsoft's power over the browser, especially at a time when the anti-trust case was still looming. A coworker and I started wondering today if the same lessons and dilemas that the US is occuring with Iraq is applicable to Microsoft. There is power in going multilateral and building organizations. There are problems when you don't. Also such organizations can get old and become too slow to be as useful or torn apart by differing intrests. Prehaps the trick is to take a "collition of the willing", bypass the stop energy and form a new organization. I expect that there is delicate balance between being a useful place to get work done, and a shell that is one player hiding under a different name. Sometimes you can not get anyone to take your side even if it is working fine for most; at that point you need to rethink what you are doing, and come back at it in a different direction.
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