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The real price of software includes the price of delivery. Users would rather not pay that, so we are stuck with craptastic spyware that is selling their data
by buzzkillington 6y ago
The real price of software includes the price of delivery.
Users would rather not pay that, so we are stuck with craptastic spyware that is selling their data to google, facebook, the NSA, the Chinese communist party and that organ harvester from Moldova.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago> The real price of software includes the price of delivery. The real price of delivery of software over the Internet is zero. (Well, it's slightly above zero, because all the networking equipment uses electricity, but you pay for your part of that in your power and Internet bills.)
- buzzkillington 6y ago>The real price of delivery of software over the Internet is zero. Let me know the name of the apt mirror you're running. I'll be sure to point the couple hundred machines I admin for their hourly updates.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThat's not delivery, that's the storage part of distribution.
- buzzkillington 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_Wager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_Wager
- asguy 6y agoYou’re caching packages locally, right?
- buzzkillington 6y agoNo. Delivery is free right? (But yes because it isn't.)
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoAWS, which charges ridiculously high prices for bulk bandwidth, charges ~$0.15/GB, and half that if you have high volumes. If your software is 50MB, that's less than a penny. Meanwhile, if even this is too much for you, BitTorrent exists.