>On Jan 31, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Colin Brace wrote:
>
>>[In an earlier thread Doug questioned the economic viability of the
>>open-source model. The mySQL database is ubiquitous; anyone can
>>download and install it from numerous repositories, no strings
>>attached. Yet the Swedish company has on the order of 10,000 paying
>>customers.]
>
>Web 2.0 has come with Bubble 2.0. It's a lot less dramatic than the
>first, but no one still has any damned idea how YouTube is going to
>make a buck.
i hear tell that they're going to be giving away toasters now and then selling support for them, too.
tomorrow, i'm changing my business site to say: get your web site for free! then buy my support services for $200/hr! wheeeeeeeee! want to make your own web site? buy my training services for $500/hr. wheeeeeeee! it'll be a commie company once i do that!