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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Greetings! It's time for a fantastically futile?? poll 
If a website hosts all knowledge and gives access to everyone, but donates any profit received through the site to relevant charities (educational facilities etc...) Should the site be allowed to exist? |
So it creates revenue by subscriptions or advertising I assume.
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By all knowledge I mean anything that the site wishes to distribute.
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Like Amazon
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It would of course be hard to imagine a site hosting all knowledge.
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Sort of like Google
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And by profit I mean anything more than is required for the site's administrators to live nicely... I think you get what I mean.
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Sort of like other big website owners.
Spoiler:
1 Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin $21,800,000,000
2 Amazon Jeff Bezos $19,166,000,000
3 Yahoo Jerry Yang and David Filo $7,200,000,000
4 eBay Pierre Omidyar $6,290,000,000
5 MSN/Live Nathan Myhrvold. $3,214,000,000
6 PayPal Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek $2,250,000,000
7 iTunes Jeff Robbin $1,900,000,000
8 Reuters Marshal Vace $1,892,000,000
9 Priceline Jesse Fink $1,884,000,000
10 Expedia Added Mark Schroeder $1,447,000,000
To me this is the only question worth considering in the coming era of widespread ereader adoption.[/QUOTE]