Industry
Internet Service Provision
Thursday, August 15, 2002
Here's a gedankenexperiment for you: If there were a hiatus on issuing patents for two years, what would be the harm?
" The most successful online subscription service today is Classmates.com, with 3 million paying customers (almost 5 times WSJ.com). .... It is critically important to remember that they do not charge for content; they charge for functionality – the ability to contact long lost friends."
— Patrick Spain, co-founder of Hoover's, in an interview with eFinance Insider, via [PAID: the economics of content]