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Well, there's still the operational cost of setting up and running the hardware (again, skilled labor), but at least the software is free.
by NortySpock 7y ago
Well, there's still the operational cost of setting up and running the hardware (again, skilled labor), but at least the software is free.
- meheleventyone 7y agoAbsolutely but the OP was talking about development of the software.
- naringas 7y agoyes, but at least until everything went back into the (mainframe) cloud, the opreational cost of running the software was coverd by the user. My pc's hardware is mine, and the electricity bill is also mine. So 'licensing' software is very much a form of rent. Quite frankly this is an open problem. e.g. the debate about AWS suddenly providing, redis, elastcisearch, etc as a service and making the original developers redundant.