[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only in the mind of anti-business control freaks such as yourself whoWell, I do think that free-market, no-controls maniacs like yourself don't understand that there needs to be a middle ground, that anything without a baseline of useful regulation is savage and destructive. If that's "anti-business," well, so be it... but I have played a significant role in the success of billion-dollar corporations, creating strategies that have resulted in hundreds of millions a year in sales, so call me back when you've done the same.
think you know better than the consumers themselves what they need and
what is useful to them.
My connection to this space is, among other things, that I act as an informaiton publisher for non-profits. The notion that they should compete on a level playing field with profiteers is absurd -- as is your previously held opinion that so much money flows into non-profits that there's no difference between them and for-profit companies.
And my notion that TLD's should serve individuated purposes and not be treated as a first-come-first-served name-a-teria comes from over a decade of seeing the effects of misdirected and lost email, and mistyped commands, and confused and disappointed end-users who can't find the resources they're looking for -- for instance, the ones who got skunked into the wrong service because queernet.com came along a few years after queernet.org and ran a commercial site -- but since many newbies assumed that a .com was the place to find things, they never found the FREE information they needed, or it took weeks.
I'm sure you'd look at that as being how the market SHOULD work, because it's all about what you can sell to a customer, not about serving the information access needs of the Internet user community.
And that's our fundamental difference -- you seem to see the Internet as a layered marketplace that is here to serve commerce, and I see it as an information and commerce source that is here to serve the users of it, not the vendors of it.
