For anti-corporate tech-heads out there, Excite is running an article about how Companies are Taking Over the Net through the use of the courts, trademarks and deep pockets. From the article, 'Big corporations have a significant and growing presence on the Internet. In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found.' A final thought from the article, 'This is the last remaining communications medium that allows the small person to participate,' said Barbara Simons, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery. 'To lose that would be a great tragedy.'
Discussion at: https://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/26/1635214.shtml
Discussion at: https://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/26/1635214.shtml
