On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Guido A.J. Stevens wrote:
> One has to be very careful in proclaiming the arrival of new laws of
> nature. Even in a gift economy, production consumes resources (like
> programmer time). The fact that it's a different business model,
> doesn't necessarily mean the underlying production technology is that
> much different.
You're right. And I don't think I'm proclaiming a new law of nature.
(That's certainly not what I'm *trying* to do.)
What I think I'm proclaiming is a major upheaval in the software
market, not in how it gets written -- which still is done at the
individual level pretty much the way it has been done for a long time.
I think a lot of traditional wisdom about the economics of software
is about to get thrown out because all of it assumes that acquiring
software costs $X, and it doesn't work well for the boundary value
case when X = 0.
Or to put it more glibly: you can *afford* to throw one (or two,
or three) away if they're all free.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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