[HN Gopher] Better than Free (2008)
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Better than Free (2008)
Author : martynr
Score : 25 points
Date : 2023-02-06 06:06 UTC (16 hours ago)
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| JohnFen wrote:
| I find it interesting that he started the essay talking about
| trust as an example of something that can't be copied, but omits
| it from his 8 points.
|
| I think it should be the very first point in his list. Trust in
| software is a thing that is increasingly lacking in the general
| population, and not without reasons. Being actually trustworthy
| is increasingly valuable.
| martynr wrote:
| Prescient comment on what becomes valuable when the cost of
| production essentially becomes irrelevant. Becoming more
| important as time passes.
| Ologn wrote:
| The cost of production for the base product hasn't become
| irrelevant, the cost of the inductive product has become
| irrelevant. The cost for an AAA single player game going gold
| is expensive, but once done - selling the next copy costs next
| to nothing. Same with the budget of a movie like Way of Water -
| it costs hundreds of millions to make, but distribution costs
| are very low after that.
| martynr wrote:
| Fair point, probably should have said something like
| "[marginal cost of re-]production"
| jamager wrote:
| > Ownership often sucks [...] Many people, me included, will be
| happy to have others tend our "possessions" by subscribing to
| them
|
| Funny, I think the opposite.
| JohnFen wrote:
| I was going to say the same thing. I really hate subscriptions,
| especially for software, and won't do them.
| quanticle wrote:
| Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with
| internet, it will be copied, and those copies never
| leave. Even a dog knows you can't erase something once
| it's flowed on the internet.
|
| I wish people would stop repeating this trope. The internet
| _does_ forget. Try pulling up any blog post or article that 's
| more than two or three years old. Click on some of the links. How
| many of them are still up? Of the ones that are down, how many
| were saved by the Internet Archive?
| agumonkey wrote:
| Internet is like the IRS, it will never forget something that
| resonates with its structure, but some stuff you will never
| find again. Your nudes and memes ? replicated everywhere and
| ready to spill. That amazing article about an interesting topic
| .. 404.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| How about this: If it was _valuable_ and _you 're trying to
| stop all unauthorized copies_, then the internet never forgets.
| Some drivel I posted some time back on some forum somewhere?
| Yeah, it's probably gone.
| Darkstryder wrote:
| To me, Internet's permanentness should be treated according to
| Murphy's law: you should plan for everything you wish would go
| down to stay up indefinitely and everything you wish would stay
| up to go down at some point.
| breck wrote:
| > These eight qualities require a new skill set. Success in the
| free-copy world is not derived from the skills of distribution
| since the Great Copy Machine in the Sky takes care of that. Nor
| are legal skills surrounding Intellectual Property and Copyright
| very useful anymore. Nor are the skills of hoarding and scarcity.
| Rather, these new eight generatives demand an understanding of
| how abundance breeds a sharing mindset, how generosity is a
| business model, how vital it has become to cultivate and nurture
| qualities that can't be replicated with a click of the mouse.
|
| > In short, the money in this networked economy does not follow
| the path of the copies. Rather it follows the path of attention,
| and attention has its own circuits.
|
| Well said!
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