End of Free not All Sad!

I’m afraid my bad writing has hurt someone’s feelings. I referred to TheEndofFree as a “sad, sad site” in a previous blog. Oliver Travers of the site counterblogged that:

It’s true enough that many free-to-fee transition announcements sounded neither inspired nor inspiring. But if the alternative is watching these companies disappear altogether, we might as well wait and see whether they’re able to bounce back.

True enough. I didn’t mean that the site itself was dreary or unpleasant. Quite the contrary. It’s practically sprightly. But, more important, yes, it was my kneejerk anti-capitalism that had me think that the end of free is necessarily bad. I’m all in favor of paying for what I get on the Web. Except for the free stuff, of course. And whatever else I can get away with.

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