>And how long as the open web survived? Since its birth, clearly. No matter how you try and spin this, advertising is not a requite for a free and open Web. If

>And how long as the open web survived? Since its birth, clearly. No matter how you try and spin this, advertising is not a requite for a free and open Web. If ads were to disappear tomorrow, web sites which society has deemed important will survive, the others (if income was necessary in the first place) will indeed perish. And we will be just fine.