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Dave Johnson seems to have some wild idea that resources are infinite:
As Chiara has pointed out, JavaLobby is obligated to provide free weblogs, free bandwidth, free file storage, free system adminstration services, and free support to anybody and everbody who wants a weblog - all without charging a dime to anybody, placing any advertisements, or restricting anybody elses right to place advertisements.
That's a nice theory, but such a promise, even if made, would not be sustainable under high enough levels of demand. At some point, costs get too high (who pays for the bandwidth, for instance?) - and a promise of free, unlimited resources will result, in the end, in no resources for anyone. A policy of "free for one and all, always" will lead - pretty quickly - to "none for anyone".
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