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"Balance commercial profit with public benefit" isn't a thing that happens voluntarily and asking nicely for it is a joke. If we want pu lic benefit, we're goin
by beatpanda 11y ago
"Balance commercial profit with public benefit" isn't a thing that happens voluntarily and asking nicely for it is a joke. If we want pu lic benefit, we're going to have to make it ourselves, or take it. I'm going to ride a unicorn off into a sunset before people making money on the Internet (or elsewhere) are going to suddenly grow a conscience.
- kuschku 11y agoWell, the old web was profit-less and only public benefit oriented, and a lot of stuff still is – lots of people in the open source community provide services that are used by hundreds of millions of people and thousands of companies completely for free.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI wouldn't say I want it back to the old web completely - there are lot of for-profit things that I use daily. But I feel that the profit mindset indeed poisoned the Internet. You could cut out 90% of people's attempts to make money on-line and the net (and the world) would be much better off.
- icebraining 11y agoWell, the old web was profit-less and only public benefit oriented When? Banner ads appeared in '94 (in HotWired), and targeted ads in '96 (service by Affinicast).