I think this is probably true, but on the other hand wouldn't we be lacking a lot of the sites we have if it wasn't for the ability to make money? Especially at

I think this is probably true, but on the other hand wouldn't we be lacking a lot of the sites we have if it wasn't for the ability to make money? Especially at the scale they exist. How could Google (cs.stanford.edu/google?) serve billions of people if it couldn't make money? It'd still have to rely on grants? Actually I guess this could be good for fundraising for Stanford, all the alumni that use Google. Although without Google's commercial dominance some other university may have made a better search engine. Hmm, maybe you're onto something.