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ethbro on April 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (...

I think the starting point of that could be more precisely identified as "the fewer buyers for a given piece of software..." the more expensive it is to own.

If you're the only customer running OS/2-on-NT-using-Token-Ring-over-Carrier-Pidgeon, you're not going to have a good time when you find a bug or missing feature.

liotier on April 24, 2016 | [–]

And that is why in Open Source, even users that contribute absolutely nothing to the project do have a value to the community

agumonkey on April 24, 2016 | [–]

A variant on the network effect effect.

qubex on April 24, 2016 | [–]

(Absence thereof.)

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