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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by fbonetti on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:45PM (#20753382)
The fact that you feel like you’re “under the thumb” of companies that provide a majority of their software products for free is really a testament to how wealthy the market has made us.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by LocalH on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @01:02PM (#20759093)
The point is, the products aren't really "free". Maybe in pure money terms, but there is a price to be paid to make use of the services, in terms of data.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by CharlesColeman on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:36PM (#20782288)
> companies that provide a majority of their software products for free

There's no such thing as a free lunch. You pay for that software even if you're unused to putting a dollar-price on its cost.

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