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0 pointsucaetano8y ago0 comments

> The machines used to be the thing of value, but now it's the software.

Not exactly. The machines were never the value per se, the work they could do was the value.

If you can buy the work without buying the machine, it is significantly better.

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z3t48y ago· 2 in thread

Yes, but if you could get it for free that would be even better. It's a fantastic business model to charge premium for something that cost almost nothing.

ucaetanoOP8y ago

> Yes, but if you could get it for free that would be even better. It's a fantastic business model to charge premium for something that cost almost nothing.

Cost almost nothing? How much do you think was invested in research and development?

But hey, feel free to open a company, invest billions of your own money in research and then give everything away for free with no revenue whatsoever. Sounds like a great business model!

z3t48y ago

It does not cost me anything if someone else runs my software. I can still charge for it. The research and development is already paid for. The business plan goes something like this: 1) Buy software 2) Sell copies of it ... But it will not work good if other people start to make copies of it, so you make it a SaaS instead, having the software run in "the cloud" where only you can copy it.

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