On 03/25/2012 07:35 PM, Keith Wright wrote:
If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product. -Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law (b. 1969)
I have read that before, but did not have an attribution. I would like to offer and ammendment.
you are not the customer, you are the merchandise.
Facebook, Google, and Hotmail had nothing to do with producing me; I am not their product.
-- Keith
PS: Essay question 1: How does this aphorism apply to getting Linux for free?
Would it be considered cheating to just refer someone to Eric Raymond? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken