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		cstejerean on Sept 19, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tim O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something wo... You don't have to fight malaria or stop making money form ads. If you're going to make an ad supported app at least make it do something useful (GMail is one example of a useful ad supported app).

tptacek on Sept 19, 2008 [–]

That's an argument against the entire entertainment industry. This is a debate over aesthetics, and I don't have much more to say about it.

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