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In article <o2NaeB7w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:
>Do you not believe in exchange of goods for money, then?

Only when there is a marginal cost to produce the goods, or a limited
supply of the goods.

In the case of food, the marginal cost comes from the raw materials (plant
seeds, fertilizer, livestock, land) and processing overhead used to produce
the food.

In the case of services, the limited supply comes from the fact that there
are only so many hours in a day.  Any time spent servicing one customer
must be taken away from time spent servicing other customers.

But what's the marginal cost or limited supply of software, other than the
distribution medium and the effort it takes to make a copy of the software?
If you make the software available for file transfer, there's no per-copy
cost to you to provide it, so what's the justification for a per-copy
price?
-- 
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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