Re: Flickr and alt

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> [...]I was trying to point out that Flickr cannot start requiring
> users to <perform some task> as that will simply kill their 
> business.

Exactly the same argument was adduced about requiring
public houses to require their customers to either
refrain from smoking completely, or to smoke outside.

The pubs /didn't/ go out of business, and most of their
customers came to accept that -- by following the rules --
they were improving the environment for everybody.

Philip TAYLOR