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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by Nullabillity on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:22PM (#24507335)
All of those have incremental costs to reproduce. The variable cost for software is practically zero.
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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by pjmlp on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:35PM (#24507507)
Yeah, because the people that wrote the software aren't worthy to be paid for their skills.
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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by ogre_codes on Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:01PM (#24507864)
I don't get your point here. Why should some users pay and others not?
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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by theincredulousk on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:37PM (#24507521)
I think you meant "marginal cost", and in software it mostly comes from the cost of engineers and infrastructure that maintain, create, and deliver the software. Nowadays that includes bandwidth, storage, and compute for any cloud component. Software is only zero marginal cost if you create it, release it, and never touch it again.
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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by Nullabillity on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:35PM (#24508960)
> and in software it mostly comes from the cost of engineers and infrastructure that maintain, create, and deliver the software.

Those are all fixed costs, the cost of development is the same, regardless of whether you have 5 or 500 users.

> Nowadays that includes bandwidth, storage, and compute for any cloud component.

Download bandwidth, sure (though that can mostly be mitigated with BitTorrent). The rest, well, that's on you for building in dependencies on cloud bullshit.

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Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists by theincredulousk on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:16AM (#24513243)
Yes, cloud bullshit, which is currently running the world based on the size and scale of the cloud providers.

More users = more feature demand = more bugs = more use cases = larger development team. Engineering is only a fixed cost if you’re naive or an economics major studying for an exam.

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