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The Marginal Cost of Software

By Basab Pradhan on January 10, 2011

Fellow Enterprise Irregular, Bob Warfield calls me out on my claim that software has no marginal cost in my blog post App Stores Galore. I write about the economics of Information Products often and have used the term marginal costs several times over the years in connection with digital music, e-books and of course the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged App Store, Bob Warfield, Cloud Computing, debate, Information Products, marginal cost, rebuttal, SaaS, softwar cost, software as a service, software marginal cost, technology | 1 Response

Software Has Marginal Cost

Software Has Marginal Cost

By Bob Warfield on January 10, 2011

Every now and again I see the old chestnut trotted out that Software has no marginal cost.  It’s used for all sorts of reasons.  The gut feeling that it is true is probably at the heart of most people’s justification for why piracy is okay, for example, not that I’m saying most people think it’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged App Store, Cloud, Cloud Computing, debate, marginal cost, rebuttal, Revenue, SaaS, service, software as a service, software cost, software marginal cost, venture | 1 Response

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