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The difference is that a CD is a commodity. People are not. Certainly there is a marketplace at work, but even if you do view programmers or designers as commod
by softbuilder 16y ago
The difference is that a CD is a commodity. People are not. Certainly there is a marketplace at work, but even if you do view programmers or designers as commoditized, no one wants to be treated that way. It's ugly behavior. (Although in my experience that is usually ignorance, not malice.)
- eof 16y agoCD?
- dholowiski 16y agoShiny things they used to put un-ripped MP3's on.
- noonespecial 16y agoUn-ripped MP3's? I thought they were just how AOL mailed software.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoAOL? Is that some sort of mass-market related startup?
- billswift 16y agoNot a startup, more a winding-down. By the way, is AOL still doing that? I used to get a couple every year, but I haven't received one in several years now.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThe joke is that AOL is so out of the game and so irrelevant to the modern internet that people might not have even heard of them at this point, mistaking them for some sort of startup that focused on mass-mailings. Though, as far as I can tell, they don't do that anymore.
- noahth 16y agofor a while I tried to start a collection of those "free install!" discs from various ISPs. it got too depressing.
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- daniel-cussen 16y agoI'd be fine with being treated like a commodity as long as that commodity is a type of bullion. I find that the term "commoditized" refers to goods or services that one, are all identical and b) are really, really cheap, like most commodities in the late 90s.