# Commercialization

Commercialization is the process of managing or running something principally for financial gain.

## Quotes

* The commercialization of computing in the 1970s and 1980s introduced a very different dynamic to software development. As software programming moved from universities to the marketplace, a closed, proprietary process arose. Yet lurking in the shadow of this mighty new industry, the free software movement has quietly persisted and grown...
** David Bollier in The Cornucopia of the Commons YES! Journalism for people building a better world, (30 June 2001)
* By reducing our movement for liberation to a system of commercial products and institutions—bars, publications, gyms, fashions, cruises, ... we become accomplices in an economic system that causes untold suffering for others. Not surprisingly, these others fail to see us as comrades in the struggle for justice.
** Richard Cleaver, Know My Name: A Gay Liberation Theology (1995), p. 35
* Much of what ails our media system stems from its extreme commercialism. The always-controversial Trump was irresistible for ratings-driven news outlets, and their endless profit-seeking helped legitimize a dangerous politics... Media are beholden to their owners and to the advertisers who pay them.
** Victor Pickard in The Problem With Our Media Is Extreme Commercialism, The Nation, (30 January 2017)
* For over a century the US has conducted an experiment in commercialized journalism by treating news as both a commodity and a public service.
** Victor Pickard in The Problem With Our Media Is Extreme Commercialism, The Nation, (30 January 2017)
* During the past decade there has been a rapid increase in the number of private providers of education in many developing countries, with many schools and educational establishments not being registered and being funded and managed by individual proprietors or enterprises... As a result, education is being commercialized and for-profit education is flourishing as an attractive business, with scant control by pubic authorities.
** The Right to Education Initiative's (RTE)Report of the UN Special Rapporteur: Protecting the right to education against commercialization, (10 June 2015)
* Does the rampant commercialization of all aspects of American society, and much of academic life, matter for the purposes of the University, the fulfillment of our telos [ultimate object or aim]? I believe it does.
** Jeffrey Sachs: What is a Moral University in the 21st Century? Speech at Columbia University, (30 March 2015)
* Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away. They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25.
** Christopher Tolkien, Le Monde, quoted in "Why JRR Tolkien’s Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" Birth.Movies.Death., (9 January 2013)

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* Non-profit organizations