Comment Re:Just Like Yellow Pages (Score 3, Insightful) 120
What is it about business owners that so often ends up with them thinking competition is unfair?
... but the basecamp CEO expects them to provide this service to people who want to visit his website free of charge and without letting companies who want to compete with basecamp place ads.
In my 20+ years of dealing with business owners, I've never met a more whiny, self-entitled bunch of douches. I've had bidders on a project automatically file suit if they didn't get a bid. No reason for it; they've told me directly that after losing they automatically sue, just par for the course. In my local municipal area, there a businesses suing the city council because (extremely necessary) road construction was being done, and they feel they lost money because of it. And forget about closing down during a huge snowstorm; they have to remain open on the 1% chance that someone will come in, afraid of losing that one potential customer to another store (no matter how dangerous it is to keep the store open).
Without exception, every business owner I've encountered thinks theirs is the only one that matters; people, environment, circumstances be damned. No matter what happens, it's all about 'muh profits'. So it's not surprising that businesses are very much against competition; they all want a monopoly if they could get it.