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Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by ignoramous on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:12AM (#21156019)
Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine fame once wrote a piece called Better than Free which I think kind of distills key points against competing with anything that can be had for free on/from the internet [0], which are:

1. Immediacy (pioneer?)

2. Personalization (bespoke?)

3. Interpretation (consultancy?)

4. Authenticity (brand?)

5. Accessibility (SaaS?)

6. Embodiment (concierge/luxury?)

7. Findability (marketing?)

I'm not sure if anyone else has written abt this, but I'd like to read more.

[0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/

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Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by coldtea on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:38AM (#21156123)
Yes, basically this translates to that if you write a FOSS program and give it for free, you can start a side business for it with 10x the effort (marketing, polish, etc) needed than if you were selling it proprietarily, for 1/10 the profits...
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Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by blattimwind on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:38AM (#21158694)
> Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine fame once wrote a piece called Better than Free which I think kind of distills key points against competing with anything that can be had for free on/from the internet [0], which are:

Or maybe, you know, just have a better product. Case in point: NLEs. There are a whole bunch of free and sometimes open source NLEs, most of which just aren't particularly good.

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Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by aeorgnoieang on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:50AM (#21158839)
> NLEs

Non-linear editing systems?

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