March 07, 2004
Bill Gates Needs More Money?
Bill Gates has proposed that we start buying eStamps for our emails... like mabye a penny a pop.... but the article fails to mention that hotmail is owned my msn..... thus at a penny an email, hotmail is now a cash cow....
and im all for stopping spam but im even more for putting my change to something actually useful**...
Posted by Jesse at March 7, 2004 10:53 PM
Comments
Ah, but what you don't realize is that both systems have one large drawback. The overhead of maintaining the toll system require's something obscene like 40% of the toll revenue goes back to maintaining the tolls and paying the staff. Not to mention the task of collecting fines from violators. Also, if we've learned anything from the past, any time someone tries to charge for something, a free or open source alternative will be born. (Kazaa, linux, etc...)
Posted by: Bryant at March 7, 2004 11:01 PM