On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 12:24 +1300, phlux0r wrote:
> Also, you get what you pay for.

Actually, I would've thought that open source, once and for all, would
have squashed that well rebutted one-time axiom.  Let's stop treating it
like a glib truism, because it's not.

In some contexts, yes, you get what you pay for (typically with scarce
goods, i.e. physical things that don't have a near $0 replication cost),
but with software (as with other digital goods like online content,
music, and web search), that's demonstrably untrue.  

Cheers,

Dave
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