Here is the deal with free… it isn’t really free. Nothing is free.
It’s just that we haven’t been the ones paying for it until now - Someone else is. And they are usually getting something in exchange. Google and Facebook, for example, get more information on you than you would ever share with the government. Or your girlfriend.
Newspapers will charge for content soon, because they realize that if readers pay/generate $0.00, then having a billion readers isn’t better business than having none. Advertising used to make the newspaper business roll, but you still had to pay to subscribe. No free lunch.
Some coffee shops in New York have stopped giving wireless Internet (and electric outlets to plus laptops) because people with laptops are taking the seats of paying clients. Find somewhere else to work on your first novel…
In the exciting pursuit of new, we got a lot of free – but someone else has been paying for it all along.
The good news is, when something has a cost, it must provide value to survive.
Oh, and don’t think I didn’t see the “Free-lusion” play on words for the title; I just decided to walk the high road on this one :-)
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