Having Fun With Disruptive Models
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| Net software infrastructure is another classic example. Imagine a world
| where no free Linux or Apache or MySQL existed and then imagine how
| many billions Microsoft and Sun have lost because they do.
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| The answer to the business model for static media is, unless someone has
| a flash of business genius, likely to be that beautiful, ugly word "free."
| Free, of course, comes in more shades than Eskimo snow, but whatever shade
| of free your music is, if you are paying .001 cents more on a can of Coke,
| you're not going to be complaining much. The money will still be flowing,
| but the bill to you will be bundled into some other cost like the
| advertising margin in your groceries. With all this "free," it's easy to
| think dot-com stands for dot-communism, but in reality, it's just an
| efficient market at work. In the meantime, we should all be trying to think
| up crazy ideas like text adverts in little boxes down the side of Web
| pages.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/16/microsoft-google-oracle-business-model-pf-guru-in_cc_0918soapbox_inl.html?partner=yahootix
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