Comments on: competition https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2181 2002-2015 Mon, 19 May 2003 01:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Pete https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2181#comment-1219 Mon, 19 May 2003 01:44:18 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/05/competition.html#comment-1219 I think that’s exactly it… it’s like Daffy Duck in that old Loony Tunes short, “Me, me me, mine, mine, mine! I’m rich I tells ya! I’m fantasically well off!” There’s an assumption that if you don’t control access in some way, your resources will inexorably diminish in value. Their thinking is obviously that since scarcity’s out of the question (barring server failure, of course), the value of the information drops to zero… but I would think that the value of the resource that’s really their stock in trade, their reputation, increases with every link. Assuming the relevance is a part of that, even critical links from the Andrew Sullivan, the Free Republic, or whomever else would only serve to increase their value.

Heh… Or do operational costs outweigh all that?

]]> By: Ghostwolf https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2181#comment-1218 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:37:26 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/05/competition.html#comment-1218 True, very true. But why is it that so many people just can’t see the value of the statement: “We’re stronger when we’re all strong together”? Is it that the people of this generation haven’t lived in jeopardy at all, and thus have never realized that any society is only as strong as its weakest link? Oh, it’s true that scale can mitigate this…but that only goes so many billions of dollars so far…
Or is it that the “decision makers” (sic) out there are just so set on the “me-Me-ME” thing that they just can’t let anybody in edgewise?
Of course…I hate to say it, but I love finding people like that. I do take a certain sadistic pleasure in deflating them, no matter how well monied…;)

]]> By: Pete https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2181#comment-1217 Sun, 18 May 2003 21:04:02 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/05/competition.html#comment-1217 The irony is, of course, that bloggers would actually help boost the rankings of the Times’ articles if the links didn’t go stale after two weeks. You compete with free by letting the free make your resources more valuable. One wonders whether this will register with them or become yet another tar pit to struggle out of.

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