Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
by pdonis on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:36PM
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> I don't see why it 'exploits the common good' to want to charge or monetise a service you provide.
To charge your users, no, of course not.
To charge advertisers and make your users products instead of customers, that's where the problem is.
(And part of the problem is that users have become so conditioned to getting services like Twitter and Facebook and Google for free that the idea of having to pay for those services would shock them.)
To charge your users, no, of course not.
To charge advertisers and make your users products instead of customers, that's where the problem is.
(And part of the problem is that users have become so conditioned to getting services like Twitter and Facebook and Google for free that the idea of having to pay for those services would shock them.)