Quote Originally Posted by vt_maverick View Post
There is no such thing as free. Free is a relative concept. Anything that is free to you is only so because someone else already paid for it. Nothing is truly free.

Thus endeth the economics lesson. Not a knock at all on people who don't support the site, I just have a personal pet peeve with people who say things should "just be free." (As in health care most recently... )
Well, if you noticed, when I wrote free, there were quotes around it.

What I mean by "free", is that it's like a free membership to your library. A place where you can go and get information without paying for it. THAT is what the Internet started out like. But, it has mutated into some sort of hideous monster of crap and nonsense. There is really only a small percentage of the Internet left that is of quality, ad-less, spyware-less, FREE content.

I guess I am sort of an anarchist/idealist in that respect. Information should always be "free".

Bart