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The opposite of OSS is not "write your own", it's "buy commercial". I agree, but that's not the counterfactual the authors considered. They asked how much it
by cperciva 3y ago
The opposite of OSS is not "write your own", it's "buy commercial".
I agree, but that's not the counterfactual the authors considered. They asked how much it would cost for everyone to independently rewrite the same software. It's not surprising that such a ludicrous concept produced an absurd estimated value.