Knut Boehnert

Nottingham

Business Systems Analyst

Besides the cost and how to pay for it there are two fundamental schools of thought in place.

In the US the thought (beside getting business) is trust the user to behave responsibly and therefore allow unrestricted access.

In Europe there is the thought that nobody can be trusted unless proven otherwise and therefore not to allow unrestricted access.

It comes I think from different historical outsets - the US with seemingly unlimited opportunities and ground still to cover against Europe, densely populated, lots of countries in the same comparable size of territory with a history of attacking each other.

Risk aversion is more useful for a European than for an American. Maybe in another generation we come to a different point of view as Europeans and make the world a better place.