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Transactions on the Net

Stefan Tilkov,

Sean McGrath points to Gordon Luk’s astounding finding that locking/transactions on the Internet is not a good idea.

I don’t think anyone ever really believed that this would be feasible on the Internet. I don’t think the folks who came up with the relevant WS-* specs ever did.