On Friday 22. June 2018 08.21.00 Bastien wrote:
>
> Not knowing whether prices of commonly used SaaS are fair (like the
> price of Google services paid by many universities) is to me a big
> argument -- at least to destroy the naive vision that it's easy to
> assess the fairness of a price in a cl
Hi Paul,
Paul Boddie writes:
> Sorry to take this discussion in another direction - hence the
> subject change - but even the costs of traditional proprietary
> software may not be transparent.
Indeed - thanks for completing my idea.
This helps me draw a new distinction.
My traditional answer
On 22-06-2018 08:21, Bastien wrote:
But it's not just "free SaaS": any kind of SaaS comes with hidden
operational costs which prevents a rational approach of what would be
a fair price. (Google Maps prices, for example, were certainly not
very fair regarding competition: they first killed the