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Re:Bidding war with Salesforce drove up Microsoft’s LinkedIn... by icebraining on Saturday July 02, 2016 @07:14PM (#12024144)
They would pay $1 for a newspaper. On HN, every day you have links for about 10 different publications, each requiring a subscription. That's more like paying hundreds of dollars to read the same number of articles for which you used to pay $1.
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Re:Bidding war with Salesforce drove up Microsoft’s LinkedIn... by pjmlp on Sunday July 03, 2016 @03:16AM (#12025107)
It would be no different if all those articles would be in separate publications.
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Re:Bidding war with Salesforce drove up Microsoft’s LinkedIn... by icebraining on Sunday July 03, 2016 @03:51AM (#12025163)
Right, but the point is that saying "people used to pay $1" is misleading here. Besides, I would still complain if a meeting club required you to purchase a subscription to dozens of publications. Of course, it wouldn't have to, because people used to read news articles aloud and pass newspapers around, whereas now that's considered Theft.
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