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Software used to be all closed-source and sold in shrink-wrapped boxes. It was a more honest time. The internet destroyed all that, and new schoolers like Net
by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Software used to be all closed-source and sold in shrink-wrapped boxes. It
was a more honest time. The internet destroyed all that, and new schoolers
like Netscape and Yahoo pioneered the portal strategy -- have the world come
through your door, and good things will happen (advertising revenue mostly).
While vscode does not thus far post ads, the motive is the same: foot traffic.
- Hackbraten 5y agoBut to what tangible revenue will that foot traffic ever convert?
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoWhy did Facebook buy Whatsapp, or Google buy Kaggle? Big companies view large userbases as an asset. Information is the new oil as one neophyte politician likes to say. These guys are operating on a level beyond our simple-minded calculus of dollars for doughnuts.