People don't think software has economies of scale. The amount of articles I've seen about the "mythical man month" and such all talk about how hard software i

People don't think software has economies of scale. The amount of articles I've seen about the "mythical man month" and such all talk about how hard software is to scale. What people do think is that the marginal cost of reproducing software is basically zero, regardless of size. This means that choosing between two products, if product 1 has n amount of features, and product 2 has those same exact n features plus an additional feature, all consumers will rationally choose product 2 (lots of assumptions, i know). This is why companies try to get bigger because if they can offer more features, than all the consumers will choose them and they get all the sales. One could argue that this is the reason why the "power law" effect thats been talked about on HN recently happens.