muesli - 10:19 am on Oct 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

there is no such thing as a free lunch, we must stop to think everything on the web must stay free.

i run a mobile text messaging community and we switched from free to fee in april. everybody thought we'd be toast two months later but we aren't. (we have 90,000 paying subscribers, 120,000 e-commerce customers and one million of users who still use the free parts. i must admit we lost 40% of our reach though.)

i'd highly welcome if services like google started B2C services, by that they'd help to build more positive attitude to these things!