On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:00:59PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> I think that cat has been out of the bag for quite some time. My feeling is
> that this is ONE of many things that lead to the internet pollution and
> dilution we have seen increasing over the years.
>
> I DO NOT mean this as a flame BTW, but rather a commentary on the rampant
> commercialism in today's society that supports people making money from
> things which give no inherent value. I apologize if I have offended anyone,
> but it is a hot button I find difficult to ignore.
>
> Rather akin to the patent camping going on today which the US government
> should have clamped down on long ago by actually enforcing their own rules
> if only they had the resources to do so. Of course the lawyers created
> these cash cows and it is probably too late to fix it.
>
> I'll shut my yap now and again, I apologize.
No apology needed. Perhaps the biggest reason I didn't do it when I
first thought of it was that there was some nagging feeling that I
didn't like the ethics. I went around about whether it was right or
wrong and couldn't put my finger on anything specific that wasn't
ethical, but that nagging feeling was still there.
This really isn't any different from land speculation. People buy
property and sit on it (or lease it in the meantime) hoping that
somebody will want to develop it later. Then they hope to make a
killing. If you want to buy land somewhere and find out it's more
expensive than the cheapest land available anywhere, nobody would be
surprised, or angry. So it is with domain names, apparently.
So where does this nagging feeling come from that I'd be a scumbag if I
bought up tons of domains for profit? Is it just some idealistic longing
for a better world in which the deserving go to college? Or is there
some hidden moral issue I haven't pinned down yet?
--
Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group
dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
(text/plain)