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Now imagine software priced like OEM car parts. We'd all be running some heirloom version of Turbo Pascal.
by usrusr 2y ago
Now imagine software priced like OEM car parts. We'd all be running some heirloom version of Turbo Pascal.
- acdha 2y agoYou know that some of the most profitable companies in the world are software companies, right? Putting more resources into security and robustness wouldn’t mean a copy of Excel costs $5,000, it’d mean that Microsoft’s profit margins go down slightly and they ship new features slightly slower. The incredible leverage of software engineering would still mean that they’re amortizing those costs across a billion users.