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"If I had made the web into a product, it would have been in somebody's interest to make an incompatible version of it," he says.
A profit-motive brings profit-motive solutions.
That's probably true (I don't know much about business or economics, but it certainly seems likely). Profit does seem to rely on competition, too - outdoing the competition, defeating them - rather than co-operating to improve conditions for everybody.
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Yeah. Of course market-based competition isn't always a bad thing. However, I don't think it's always the best approach to provide a service.
Personally, I don't know why people so often take a fervent stand on this issue. I think it's characteristic of the Western mindset that one type of solution might be applied to all problems.