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I unlist my contact details, and only people who can do a WHOIS contact me. Then I talk to those like a regular person. If the system is designed optimally, it should be inherently supportive and most people won't need help. But it totally depends on your specific business and goals, which you didn't explain.

It's the Flashification of the web. People who wanted to show off, or code web apps, used to use Macromedia Flash. People complained about it, in part because sometimes if you accessed a site without the Flash plugin you'd see a blank page.

But Flash was great in many ways, and it was self-contained in objects, so websites were mostly still websites. JavaScript had been around for a long time, but there was still a cultural norm that most people respected about not requiring JavaScript. This was mainly because a lot of browsers still didn't fully support it, or people had it turned off. It was also when some people had cookies disabled.

Then once Adobe bought Flash, and then Apple blocked Adobe Flash, it really killed the Flash way, and all that spilled over into HTML with HTML 5 and the new cultural norm of kids who are more concerned with showing off socially than the meat and potatoes of hypertextual information.

It should've been obvious that there was a need for a new web, for code and multimedia. But in the .com boom nobody would dare try to start with something unpopulated, since it'd risk losing their chance at fortune.

Today, instead, maybe we should go in the opposite direction and create a new old web; a hypertext network that specifically only works for HTML, so people can have this one to morph into an app network, and we'll not lose the text-linking place we've grown accustomed to.

A blog, datepicker, and meetup events are trivial to me. They're like the freebies you'd expect in a party favor bag. It sounds more like he doesn't want to work hard, just hang out and talk, make a few small things, and somehow expects that to translate to survival.

It's a common fallacy shared by hippies: "let's all get together, feel good from drugs, sex, and music, make a few bead necklaces and paintings, and we'll live happily ever after as a peaceful family."

It's ironic he's continuing to do the same he's warning against by blogging about it on Medium.com.

Here's the secret about those "free" ideological communities... it's only free in terms of dollar bills; really their currency is love.

They want to be loved, and accepted. To hang out with fellow kind who stroke and groom them. They don't want to go out and hunt or fight. They're like the weak, infants of the tribe.

That's why someone like Stallman pushes so hard for the "free" thing, because in a highly competitive economy, he just isn't equipped to function. He can produce a few things, but all the other stuff necessary to thrive in the harsh outer world just isn't there. It's either find a way to get some love somehow, in a less competitive "free"verse, or be a loser in misery.

This guy might have more potential if he's managed to reproduce and have a spouse. Or there might be some critical flaw there that's blocking his ability to work at Google, and he's stuck without much opportunity.

Unfortunately, some people are sucked into that "free" religion when they didn't need to be. It's a disservice to society, but an advantage for the guys who can convince people to join their hippie circle. Stallman is a selfish greedy top 1%er like people accused Bill Gates of being; the only difference is, he's a lot more tricky in his deception.