bons's Journal: I wonder what the trade off is on people like Mike.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/16/1621244 if you want the basic thread behind this.

It's obvious Mike has failed to actually understand one of the core concepts of the bandwagon he's hopped on, which is the belief that a license is something that should be chosen, not forced on people.

It's also obvious that a huge portion of the community is more than willing to slam his ass for that lack of a clue.

But it makes for an interesting business model. It seems probably enough that threads like that generate immediate hits, which, through advertising, generates revenue. However, it also seems to me that threads like that discourage new users who came looking for something better and discourage old users who see too much of that.

So what's the tradeoff? Immediate hits vs. long term vistors.

Unfortunately, the immediate hits are easy to see. The lost visitors are much harder to measure. Which leads me to think the people in marketing will keep people like Mike.

It's also a shame. It would have been nice if the discussion was related around the news, instead of around Mike's commentary. Unfortunately, the editoral simply destroyed any hope of a decent discussion about the article.

So much for slashdot...