422 sats \ 1 reply \ @0260378aef 5 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: What else is trending towards becoming "free"? meta
That's a part of it, but the other part of it is that software itself is information. It's just a digital pattern, which can be copied. So there is no "rivalrousness" as the theorists of this type of thing, say. That's the main reason why the natural price of software is "kinda-sorta" zero.
That was the first part of my comment, wasn't it? I used "scarcity" instead of "rivalrousness" because it's the more familiar term.
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