Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 23, 2004 06:14 PM
Commodification means that the overhead costs for a type of product (Inital marketing, R&D etc) have been paid back in revenue and the cost for the product closes in to the value of production for each item sold.
For most open source, the R&D costs are not paid for.
You can't really say that it's a commodification that people just download software without paying the producers.
The fact that it's lost it's value is true but not that there has been a commodification.
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Commodification?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 23, 2004 06:14 PMFor most open source, the R&D costs are not paid for.
You can't really say that it's a commodification that people just download software without paying the producers.
The fact that it's lost it's value is true but not that there has been a commodification.
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