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I disagree. Such a measurement method has several significant flaws (which work to the advantage of whoever is doing the measurement): 1. How do you decide whi
by cyphar 10y ago
I disagree. Such a measurement method has several significant flaws (which work to the advantage of whoever is doing the measurement):
1. How do you decide which price to count? Do you count initial costs, or all recurring fees? Do you count additional services by third party vendors? Do you count training materials and so on?
2. It ignores products that have no price, and emphasises inflated pricing of products. This is obviously massively incorrect as a measurement when it comes to services that can be done by gratis software (which includes a large amount of free software).
- cmurf 10y agoI think it's a relevant and useful measurement from the perspective of, imagine how much better free software would be if the cost spent per user were e.g. 1/2 (arbitrary) that of the Windows ecosystem cost spent per user. No doubt it's a lot less for free software, and that's fine. But that cost should be higher via companies and governments in particular, contributing more dollars voluntary, with donations and development for free software. Not merely free no cost, but libre free, as in repurposable.