in thread "Why don't people realize that 'high software profit margins' are fugazi?": The high cost of software is almost entirely the high labor cost of creating it in the first place. We do not have software abundance. We have distribution abundance of the scarce software we do have. Software is at the limits of economies of scale, where ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 The high cost of sof (view hidden) retry 3 3 Whoever provisions public goods becomes the government. There's some truth to that.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 Whoever provisions p (view hidden) retry 3 3 good software: works, does a useful job well, doesn't crash or have bugs, is a joy to use, doesn't use too much energy or have weird latencies, changes your life for the better. 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 good software: works (view hidden) retry 3 3 That's your concept not mine. I don't believe in abstract generalized "the good". 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 That's your concept (view hidden) retry 3 3 what's your theory of just prices, anon, if it's not just "what the market will bear" 14mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 what's your theory o (view hidden) retry 3 3