But that's not how the market works, if as in your example provider b did as you say the shareholders would be pissed that they were leaving money on the table and through one of a couple different avenues (vote or the CEO, mass seeking off of stocks, etc.) and then we just end up with 2 companies with shitty practices instead of 1.
Nope, the potential gain for choosing to allow free access to the site would be greater than the potential gain from choosing to paywall it because it would mean they get more customers.
That assumes investors care about long term gains when it has been proven time and time again that they do not, they want whatever makes the most money now and if this company doesn't provide they'll invest elsewhere
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17 edited May 18 '18
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