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Sorry, I'm having trouble following along. Non sequitur? In what world is software comparable to apples or oil? We need a different analogy.
by thelastparadise 3y ago
Sorry, I'm having trouble following along. Non sequitur?
In what world is software comparable to apples or oil? We need a different analogy.
- smokel 3y agoSoftware is comparable to apples or oil, because they are all economic goods. Note that I am referring to commodity software (because that is what this thread is about). The reproduction costs are negligible compared to the software development cost. Perhaps for a better understanding of my point, consider book publishing, or limited edition prints of art. The scarcity is almost completely artificial. Microsoft and Oracle, for example, have grown to be extremely large companies due to this possibility of selling the same thing at nearly no extra cost. If you think this is normal, then that's fine, but commodity software is most certainly (as you hint at yourself) not a good fit for economic models based on scarcity.