] A widely publicized project to transform a man-made
] platform off the coast of England into a haven for
] controversial Web businesses has failed due to political,
] technical and management problems, one of the project's
] founders said.

I attended this talk at Def Con last weekend, and got some additional impressions than what made it into the article. For one, it was obvious that we were hearing only one side of the story, so there was a definite "sour grapes" feel to parts of the talk. And as the speaker himself mentioned, some problems were caused by the way he and his associate would spend more time traveling around and *talking* about HavenCo, than actually spending time there and running it.

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