I said almost zero, not zero. And even the cheapest hardware comes is still orders of magnitude away from the cheapness of copying bits. Also, I never said the parties involved in copying bits shouldn't bear the cost of doing so.

You said the cost for the copying/transferring of bits was almost zero, and I believe you said that programming languages should be free, because they are so cheap.

I countered that very cheap hardware would have to be free, following that logic.

Who are you to say what is cheap and what is not? Not to mention that orders of magnitude greater than almost zero is potentially still almost zero.