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		vladd on March 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paul Graham has lost the plot Naming an example (Linux) doesn't contradict "there's be less of it".

jfoutz on March 21, 2012 [–]

That's right. Charging for software was microsoft's big invention. It took, what, 30 years to realize that the software had enough value beyond the hardware.

I guess the flip side is, if there was no free software, there would be no pay software.

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