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Re:No office, no boss, no boundaries – rise of the nomadic rich by rmc on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @08:21AM (#5026050)
the problem is that if you make (say) a WoW character builder, some other hacker will build another one for free.

Nonsense! Just look at bottled water. The definition of selling something that everyone (not just hackers) can get for free.

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Re:No office, no boss, no boundaries – rise of the nomadic rich by bdunn on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @06:20AM (#5031054)
The success of bottled water is the result of a, eh, educational campaign. Namely, that tap water is full of yucky stuff.

Without this market conditioning, I don't think many people would have been interested. So they are selling something valuable to a lot of people: water that won't make you sick, which is much different than the alternative.

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