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Hosting, storage, software, human-provided services, physical objects etc will never be "too cheap to meter".
by thebean11 5y ago
Hosting, storage, software, human-provided services, physical objects etc will never be "too cheap to meter".
- eternityforest 5y agoPart of what makes tech great is reducing the need for physical objects. Open source software already is literally free. Almost all the good stuff is developed by corporations at a pretty high price, but it's still not much considering billions of users. Hosting apparently costs so little to provide that just a few ad clicks and some data collection, or a donation model like Wikipedia, can be way more than enough. Some of it appears to even be given away just as a promotion. It's not literally free, but it's getting close to irrelevant costs per megabyte of data.