I believe what you say about pinboard (and I pay), but Joel makes a factual observation. I can't blame anyone for using a service for free, when free is an offi

I believe what you say about pinboard (and I pay), but Joel makes a factual observation. I can't blame anyone for using a service for free, when free is an official offering. Merely paying for a service does not ensure that the service will continue, and if your data or operations are integrated into a service then when it dies it can be anywhere between inconvenient to impossible to extract yourself, paid or not. But that's the nature of the web especially, with its relative low barrier to entry. I shuddered when Fastmail was acquired by Opera, and was relieved when they split. Even old established IRL businesses come and go for various reasons. Nothing in life is permanent, and so logically some of what you use and know is going to disappear in your lifetime.