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Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free" 206

An anonymous reader brings us another bump on the bumpy road of Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, which we discussed a week ago. Now the Times (UK) is reporting on a dustup between Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Recently Gladwell reviewed, or rather deconstructed, Anderson's book in the New Yorker. Anderson has responded with a blog post that addresses some, but by no means all, of Gladwell's criticisms, and The Times is inclined to award the match to Gladwell on points. Although their reviewer didn't notice that Gladwell, in setting up the idea of "Free" as a straw man, omitted a critical half of Stewart Brand's seminal quote.
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Submission + - Forums and Community Software for a Startup?

GeekMarine72 writes: "After reading Le Meur's Ten Rules For Startup Success and convincing the folks at my current startup, GoldMail the need to embrace our community of users via Forums, user submitted Galleries, and even Wikis, I've been tasked with finding software packages or services to do so. We are a Microsoft(TM) centric organization but are happy to work with other SaaS providers. What products, services, and open source projects have others had success with?"

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