Not the end of free afterall says WSJ

WSJ: “Just a few years ago, as dot-com companies started to tank, many analysts had predicted that some free Web content and tools would disappear or dwindle. “Free is certainly making a huge comeback these last 12 to 18 months,” says Olivier Travers, a technology consultant in the U.K. who in March 2001 launched a blog, theendoffree.com, chronicling the move to fee-based services from free.”