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Agree. OTOH, a business is not a charity, by definition. I guess that as a businessman, you'd have to calculate whether your expectation of future revenue justi
by HSO 17y ago
Agree. OTOH, a business is not a charity, by definition. I guess that as a businessman, you'd have to calculate whether your expectation of future revenue justifies the added expense, in which case you are really "investing" in a future market, not "subsidising" it. Still, something feels wrong about cutting data/information flow on this basis on the net...
- harpastum 17y agoBusiness: "The practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce." Charity: "Generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering." I don't see how business precludes charity 'by definition'. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."[1] They don't qualify that with 'only if it makes us money.' [1]http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/