[Ag Meinungsfindungstool] Requirements in regard to split opinion formation: Outcome A

[Michael Allan <mike AT zelea.com>]

Here is one possible outcome to the unstable situation of diagram (3).
http://metagovernment.org/pipermail/start_metagovernment.org/2012-October/005110.html


  (A.1)      ....
          ..........  M1                  ...
        ..............   ....         ..........
       .......................       ............
       ......................         ..........
        .............   ....               ..
          ..........                     ......  M2
             ...                          ......
                                            ..
                                    \\
            +-----+  +-----+         \\               //
            |     |  |     |          \\+-----+      //
            | T1  |  | T2  |           \\     |     //
            |     |  |     |            \\T3  |    //
            +-|-|-+  +-|-|-+            |\\   |   //
    +---------|-|------|-|---+          +-\\|-+  //
    |         | |      | |   |        +---|\\---//----+       +---
    |                        |        |   | \\ //     |       |
    |    S1                  |        |      \// S2   |       |
    |                        |        |      /\\      |       |
    +------------------------+        +-----//-\\-----+       +---
                                           //   \\
                                          //     \\
     M  Opinion in formation             //       \\
     T  Competing tools                 //         \\
     S  Common standards, practices,   //           \\
        databases, and so forth       //             \\
                                     //

   http://zelea.com/var/tmp-public/agm/split-opinion-A.1.txt


Rival platforms (such as S2) are simply eliminated until a single
platform is left standing.  That platform becomes the de facto
monopoly.

Personally, I don't like this outcome.  T3 could easily be Votorola
and S2 could be Outcast.  I chose to work on those, and I don't want
to be forced out of my work, or to lose my freedom of choice.  This is
where I have a personal concern with the common platform that's being
mooted by AG Meinungsfindungstool.

-- 
Michael Allan

Toronto, +1 416-699-9528
http://zelea.com/