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Forced scarcity as in tying Windows 7 to a license and OS X to a Mac device that you need to buy? If "forced scarcity" as you call it is eliminated, the first
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
Forced scarcity as in tying Windows 7 to a license and OS X to a Mac device that you need to buy?
If "forced scarcity" as you call it is eliminated, the first copy of software, songs, movies, will cost a few billion dollars and the rest will be free. After all, it costs real money to feed the designers and coders.
- aklofas 15y agoI'm not saying that forced scarcity is a bad thing. What I'm trying to say is that, if you take a project/business open source, forced scarcity is no longer a viable strategy (you know, the whole free as in freedom not as in beer thing). There are other strategies, like dual licensing (Trolltech [before nokia]), or consulting (Red Hat), or even (yes) Mozilla with their cross agreements.