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I think you meant "marginal cost", and in software it mostly comes from the cost of engineers and infrastructure that maintain, create, and deliver the software
by theincredulousk 6y ago
I think you meant "marginal cost", and in software it mostly comes from the cost of engineers and infrastructure that maintain, create, and deliver the software. Nowadays that includes bandwidth, storage, and compute for any cloud component. Software is only zero marginal cost if you create it, release it, and never touch it again.
- Nullabillity 6y ago> and in software it mostly comes from the cost of engineers and infrastructure that maintain, create, and deliver the software. Those are all fixed costs, the cost of development is the same, regardless of whether you have 5 or 500 users. > Nowadays that includes bandwidth, storage, and compute for any cloud component. Download bandwidth, sure (though that can mostly be mitigated with BitTorrent). The rest, well, that's on you for building in dependencies on cloud bullshit.
- theincredulousk 6y agoYes, cloud bullshit, which is currently running the world based on the size and scale of the cloud providers. More users = more feature demand = more bugs = more use cases = larger development team. Engineering is only a fixed cost if you’re naive or an economics major studying for an exam.