Originally Posted by davethedope

Is this just good business?

Think of it, you have an industry full of self interested, independent, entrepreneurs- some of whom just got lucky by getting into the internet early.

Everything was decentralized, no webmaster associations per se.

So, along comes a group who, to their credit, identifies the inherent weakness of what amount to hundreds of small businesses in a market where product differentiation is next to zero.

The company starts putting the pieces together and pretty much forces the hand of the independent business owners.