Yet the commitments, for all their weakness, serve a crucial function: They prevent each side from using the other as a foil to justify inaction.

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As a startup founder who handled the public relations in-house for my own business as well as someone who plays the outsourced function to other founder teams, I can identify with each perspective.

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Although more complicated to use than Napster, they perform the same function of allowing people to exchange music and other files with each other over the internet.

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