Z:gnu-www-ja-new-monopoly--5e3286-We don't know what will happen/en

We don't know what will happen in ten years; neither do they. The economic situation of the Internet is changing rapidly, and no one knows where it is going. Perhaps, in 2009, commercial data bases will disappear from the Internet. Or perhaps they will be very successful. Perhaps networks of volunteers will maintain all the data bases anyone might want. Perhaps advertising will provide a comfortable source of revenue to any company that maintains a data base; perhaps a much weaker law saying &ldquo;If you redistribute our data base, you must redistribute our ads too&rdquo; would serve their interests almost as well. Nobody knows.