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How Ethical is the new Web 2.0 business model? (p2pfoundation.net)
2 points by amichail on May 9, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



This author should hurry up and get outraged over Linux and the BSDs. Also, all of academia ought to be ashamed that it's fooled itself into publishing stuff for free: if you come up with a new theorem, you'd better slap a price tag on it!


Then he should get outraged that I'm reading his article for free. ;-)


And outraged that readers are leaving thoughtful comments on his sight; their unpaid contributions are creating value, and such Websploitation should not go unpunished!

Here's a clue for the author: Many people do things for reasons other than money.

I know; sounds crazy! Go figure.


"shameless exploitation of free labour"

Pu-lease. It's only exploitation if the person providing the labour is forced to do it, or tricked into it. If they freely left the comment/voted etc. knowing full well that they won't get paid (or not paid much) then it's not exploitation.

Some video uploading sites are starting to share profits with uploaders anyway. So expect a bidding war upwards.


Business model? What the hell...when did Web 2.0 get a business model is what I want to know?


Small thinking.


Ethics? Of the web? Blogga, PLEASE.




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