There are plenty of people who want to build things in a decentralized, distributed way for fault tolerance and cost reasons -- those people tend to be fairly competent.
Or, decentralization in the face of a very specific threat (e.g. MAFIAA and piracy-optimized things like BitTorrent, and FinCEN and things like Bitcoin).
Until recently, there weren't widely-believed threats to general Internet use.
Or, decentralization in the face of a very specific threat (e.g. MAFIAA and piracy-optimized things like BitTorrent, and FinCEN and things like Bitcoin).
Until recently, there weren't widely-believed threats to general Internet use.