One might even leave the "courier service" out of it, and mail your document
to the intended recipient. I suppose that $1.00/document[1] (under 1.44M) is
a low enough ignorance tax that people will flock[1.5] to the familiar
business model[2].
Maybe we should let people know that they ought to bring in their word
processors and spreadsheets for a "bit exchange" every month or 3,000
keystrokes. Send us your executable and $30, and we'll send you back an
executable with brand new bits. Site licenses available for a mere two
month's[3] salary of the most highly compensated employee.
-Dave
[1] how much would the FoRK fund contain if we became UPS associates?
[1.5] "two browsers good, no browsers bad, baaaa...."?
[2] UPS is a traditional, privately held and well unionized company. They
once bought a software company to do route optimization; not knowing whether
engineers were fish or fowl, UPS eventually decided that they must be
"management" instead of "labor" and therefore ought to wear suits.
[3] have the Canadians had any effect on De Beers' Central Selling
Organisation?