Stephen Downes

This is a great deconstruction of a Wired article that tries to tell us that internet users have an obligation to make online services profitable. A must-read for anybody who buys the idea that we have to charge subscriptions (or copyright fees, or other fees) in order to make online content provision (including educational content) profitable. The bottom line is: it is not up to the consumer to fit the business model, it is up to the business to create a model that fits the consumer. By Bob Frankston, May, 2001.