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Re:Please Stop Working on Ads by JoeAltmaier on Friday August 31, 2012 @03:41PM (#4461346)
I'll chime in. If we want to provide GMail free to people in Africa, then we just do it. Govt subsidize it or something. Quit shoe-horning philanthropic efforts into somebody's business model.
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Re:Please Stop Working on Ads by potatolicious on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:03PM (#4461445)
If philanthropy is an emergent property of a business model, I'd count my blessings and keep it.
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Re:Please Stop Working on Ads by JoeAltmaier on Friday August 31, 2012 @05:43PM (#4461817)
The point of the article was that it Wasn't, in fact it was a drag on the business model.
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