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Title: Why pay for a bunch of 1s and 0s. It's not a real product!
Review: Imagine you could create in infinite number of copies of any given book. Say a dictionary. Now imagine that you wanted to sell the dictionary. Normal market economics would suggest that you have infinite supply which will far outstrip demand making the price as low as possible.Now enter software.The process of making software is a service. A service which should be paid for, but once the service is done what you have is infinitely reproducible. Giving it no real value.Now enter marketers.Marketers created the concept of "Productizing". See the pretty box? You don't need that. You're going to throw it away, but it helps you think you're buying something real instead of something that can be infinitely recreated.So why pay for it?You don't really have to. Operating systems exist that aren't productized and since this one is infinitely reproducible it will likely be copied.Get Linux! Ubuntu... it's free!
