“Adding a www. subdomain to your domain for accessing the web page is like adding a mail. subdomain to your domain for your e-mail address”. Now, what reasoning is that? Ever heard of MX records? Most mail servers does, indeed, run on mail.domain.tld; however, there are also MX records pointing to that server so that you can use the bare domain name for mailing. Completely different story. Completely unrelated.

You don’t reach/teach confused people by doing something that can only be explained by saying, “You don’t have to do it, but I just think it’s better this way.” Especially when it’s an issue nobody agrees on.

If you want people to better understand the internet, remove the confusing bits and leave only what’s necessary. Nobody, and I mean nobody, who isn’t technical will ever understand what the hell the www is there for, but they will continue to use it (without knowing why) as long as webmasters keep it around.

Take it away, and the internet will make just a tiny bit more sense to them.

Linux, was started by Linus in 1991, by March 1994 V1.0 was released. Hence the lift of the commercial activity ban in 1994, could not possibly have any influence on the genesis of Linux. And therefore none of the woes associated with the lift of that ban on commercial activities can be balanced “Overall” by the existence of Linux. Linux pre-existed these woes!

Eventually a DNS-based approach may resolve that problem, but that will be a long time coming.