-I'm -constantly getting emails from people complaining that LBO is too -expensive, that I should give it away on the web, that I should put -up Acrobat versions of Wall Street and A New Economy? (when it's -done, which won't be long, I swear!), etc. Like I'm not trying to pay -the rent by writing, like it costs nothing for Internet access, -subscriptions, phone calls, travel, and like it takes no time to -maintain a website. The net has bred a righteous sense of entitlement -among users, because it seems to be costless - there's no commodity -you can drop on your foot, so it must be free, right?
Yet it should be free. It is horribly inefficient to have a useful item that is costless to reproduce more widely be restricted through an artificial narrow commodity sales scarcity. ... Nathan Newman
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Well,
I couldn't take the guilt trips any longer, so I subscribed. It was completely painless. Don't know why it took so long. After all, it wasn't as bad as root canal. I think it was Dostoyevsky who wondered why socialists and free thinkers were such incredible skin-flints.
Chuck_o.
PS. Chuck0. Thanks for the answers. There is plenty to develop there, but I am going for a bike ride and think on it.