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Re: Innovation in software (was RE: IBM loses its Unix license -Jun. 16, 2003)

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Chris Rehm wrote:

>  > commodity. Computer software takes that fundamental principal to the
>  > extreme, and the cost of reproduction can be essentially zero for the
>  > manucturer.
>
> There's got to be some flaw in this logic, Hans. Cost to reproduce what?
> The bits? Or the application? If I have a great idea for an application
> and I spend a year or two churning it out, where does that set the
> "cost" as you evaluate it above? Zero? Not worth my time to bother?

The cost of *reproduction* is very near zero.  The cost of *production* is
not.  Hans was speaking of reproduction.  It doesn't cost much to type:

cp -R project/ mycopy/

James Rich

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