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0 pointsoh-kumudo8y ago0 comments

How so? They don't sell the model itself, they sell the 'tickets' to allow you to take a picture of it. That is not DRM.

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ggg99908y ago· 4 in thread

Yes, that’s what the OP is saying. Consumers fought against DRM so the business model became “never give them the software and you’ll never need to force DRM on them.”

ucaetano8y ago

Except that no companies actually wanted the software in the first place, they wanted the service.

[Edited: made it clear I was talking about companies]

ggg99908y ago

Maybe you did, but I’d much rather have things like the Nest camera or text-to-speech as my own software. However, it’s impossible to get the same quality for the same amount spent this way, since vendors prefer the service business model.

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btian8y ago

That's a very cynical interpretation.

Even if Google wants to sell websearch software, there will be so few customers since it would cost billions of dollars to buy machines to run them, you'll need to build DC, get power etc.

And what's wrong with services anyway?

z3t48y ago

Google have infrastructure to to serve billions of requests per second, that is not be needed if you only serve yourself. Now imagine if every-one would scrape the web as often as Google does. :P

Your mobile phone can run some billions of instructions per second. Now imagine a server case, or a rack. Compute power is very dense. And very cheap.

The entire wikipedia (text only) can be stored on a micro-sim. eg a few mm.

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ggg99908y ago· 4 in thread

Yes, that’s what the OP is saying. Consumers fought against DRM so the business model became “never give them the software and you’ll never need to force DRM on them.”

ucaetano8y ago

Except that no companies actually wanted the software in the first place, they wanted the service.

[Edited: made it clear I was talking about companies]

ggg99908y ago

Maybe you did, but I’d much rather have things like the Nest camera or text-to-speech as my own software. However, it’s impossible to get the same quality for the same amount spent this way, since vendors prefer the service business model.

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btian8y ago

That's a very cynical interpretation.

Even if Google wants to sell websearch software, there will be so few customers since it would cost billions of dollars to buy machines to run them, you'll need to build DC, get power etc.

And what's wrong with services anyway?

z3t48y ago

Google have infrastructure to to serve billions of requests per second, that is not be needed if you only serve yourself. Now imagine if every-one would scrape the web as often as Google does. :P

Your mobile phone can run some billions of instructions per second. Now imagine a server case, or a rack. Compute power is very dense. And very cheap.

The entire wikipedia (text only) can be stored on a micro-sim. eg a few mm.

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