<quote who="SJS">
> begin quoting MattyJ as of Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:35:01AM -0700:
>> <quote who="David Brown">
>> > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 06:11:18PM -0700, SJS wrote:
>> >>--
>> >>Free wifi, with an advertisement saying "Sponsored By".
>> >
>> > The "free wifi" at some airport tried to make me watch an entire
>> > advertisement video before giving me the wifi. I put my data card in
>> > at that point.
>>
>> Do you feel that you're entitled to free wifi at the airport?
>
> If it's not actually free, they shouldn't be allowed to call it "free".
>
> Being forced to watch an advertisement isn't "free". It's an exchange, a
> contract of sorts, and thus, it shouldn't be allowed to be called "free".
>
> Nothing wrong with the contract, aside from the misleading bit.
I don't think it's misleading, the modern connotation of 'free' in that
instance is the lack of monetary exchange.
If the connection happened to take 30 seconds to initiate and your screen
was blank during that time, is it free? Would you still demand your 30
seconds back? What's stopping you from turning off your sound and looking
away?
Still sounds free to me.
-Matt
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