9 Jun
2012
9 Jun
'12
1:03 a.m.
On 06/08/2012 07:19 PM, Don Fanning wrote:
Since when is it detrimental to make money? I'd much pay a little and
have a high Quality of Service than beg and plead for free bandwidth
that can be taken away easily. If it lends to the adage "when all
else fails - amateur radio" then maybe it's worth putting in a couple
of coins. Amateur Radio has and will very likely always will be a
service without compensation. But there is no reason to take it to
the extreme of anti-capitalism.
Making money is OK and paying for service is also
OK, but sometimes you
can for various reasons get access to resources that you cannot pay on
commercial conditions to do things that you could otherwise only dream
of. I see no reason why these paradigms could coexist. Just diversity
in business models. It is mostly about pooling resources and it is of
course something in it for all involved, but not always money. Perhaps
we do not necessarily have to take everything to the extreme of
capitalism either.