On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:12:04AM +0530, Raju Mathur spoke out thus: > Someday greed is going to overreach itself, and then there'll be one > legislation which forbids some restrictions which content providers > are laying upon their consumers. That one legislation will act as a > precedent for a whole slew of similar court cases and the content > providers will end up with the short end of the stick. </oracle> >
Another possible theory is that the market might throw up a self-check mechanism. Firms would come up whose USP would be to treat their own customers with respect and not treat them as cows which can be forever milked. A crude example could be the emergence of google in the last few years. Before the advent of google, remember how search engines kept getting bloater and bloater? I remember Altavista (my favorite before google came along) cramming in ads, lots of junk content on a page which was just expected to be a search engine. Every search engine provider kept on putting more and more junk on the search page. Then google came along and gave people just what they wanted - a no nonsense search page. I am yet to see a website entry page as to-the-point as http://www.google.com . IMHO it showed that google understood that when people are coming to their site, they consider it a waste of time if they spend time waiting for the page to load, and google respected that sentiment.(I serously don't know how they make money though.) Seriously, google has got a huge following not only for their massive searching capability and search intelligence, but also that they have treated their users with far more respect than other greedy search competitors. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya Mindframe Software Work: sandip @ mindsw.com, http://www.mindsw.com Play: sandipb @ bigfoot.com, http://www.sandipb.net ----------------------------------------------- ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
