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The best think about the

Posted July 30, 2001 11:20 AM.

The best think about the line below (that I quote from an article found via the LMG) is that it seens actually uncomfortable with people not building things under the influence of pure capitalist monetary lust: Taming the Wild, Wild Web: "The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant. "The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive. But this is a business, not a government-sponsored network."

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