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> Software is weird because it is expected that should be free (as in beer) for most consumers while while being for profit and giving high salaries to its work
by motorest 2y ago
> Software is weird because it is expected that should be free (as in beer) for most consumers while while being for profit and giving high salaries to its workers.
Shoppers expect shopping carts at a supermarket to be free, but you still have for-profit factories that employ many people to produce shopping carts that they sell for-profit to supermarkets. Do you also struggle to understand how that works?
- lesuorac 2y agoIce was free and now it's not. I don't think consumer expectations matter that much when they don't have a free alternative.
- packtreefly 2y agoTo keep with that analogy, customers expect the SaaS company to respond to the HTTP requests for free, but you still have for-profit factories producing servers...
- seec 2y agoSaaS exists mostly as a rent seeking strategy. It doesn't make that much sense for most software.
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