Dumb executives tend to become best friends with other dumb executives.
We'll continue to see other content and electronic commerce sites looking formerger partners, and, failing that, having to close the doors. Everything is free on the net right now, but there is nevertheless a cost for putting it there. What you have is a false economy that is being propped up right now by Wall Street and venture money. It is better to be praised by one's own works than by the words of another. A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.