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The customer is no longer right. Software is a zero-margin product (Stallman was right!) and monetizing it effectively means creating artificial friction for th
by smoldesu 4y ago
The customer is no longer right. Software is a zero-margin product (Stallman was right!) and monetizing it effectively means creating artificial friction for the user. All of the fatalist 90s predictions surrounding software licensing are coming true...
- MattDemers 4y agoThe shareholders must be satified. The amount of satisfaction can never reach an upper limit, so everything is on the table in the name of infinite scaling.
- sieabahlpark 4y ago
- copperx 4y agoWhat do you mean by software being zero-margin? That software is non profitable?
- smoldesu 4y agoInfinite copies can be reproduced without increasing the cost of research or development.
- smcg 4y agoThis was basically the thesis of my college information science textbook.