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Story: Shadow chancellor slams government over open source

Posted by: andrewdonoghue (Thursday 8 March 2007, 6:12 PM)

Debate is healthy

Stirring is one way to look at it - we prefer seeding the debate at ZDNet UK ;-)

A site made up of free contributions is an interesting idea...

But then again if you think about it - you're actually providing open source content right now. No one is paying you to exchange ideas with the ZDNet UK community but you seem to enjoy it - or at least feel driven to do it.

But you are right in that we depend on advertising to make the site run - but we don't charge a subscription fee or charge for the content itself. And that kind of advertising model is one that has done very well for Google and one that even Microsoft is considering for its hosted applications. It's not about rejecting capitalism - it's about the adopting the right business model.

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