[gwu78]

Agreed.

But we should be careful to distinguish technologies aimed at home users versus those aimed at the enterprise. Unlike the consumers they serve, US corporations are allowed and encouraged to secure their communications and the storage of their information. What technologies might be useful to them in this regard?

I also believe that when any software or system reaches a sufficiently large userbase, large companies will be soon to follow - whether their interest is in adopting the software/system for their own internal use or for some other reason, e.g. developing and marketing it themselves, under their own brand perhaps, to consumers. Software user mindshare has inherent economic value[1], even if the software users are attracted to is developed and distributed "for free" and even if it begins life with a cryptic command line interface.

1. Just as Microsoft. They will always react to whatever becomes popular among software users. Always. Even when it costs them milions with little hope of ROI.