Wales riding the cost train toward zero
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| Where is the money to fund this going to come from? "We're going
| to ask people to link back to our ad support sites like Wikia."
| That didn't sound like a lot of money to me. "We're pretty loosey
| goosey about it."
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| How can a for-profit business be "a little loosey-goosey" about
| anything? Here is how.
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| "The basic concept here is given the ongoing dramatic dop in the
| price of bandwidth and hardware, they cost very little. I looked
| at the bandwidth bill for Wikipedia, for instance, and it is
| actually substantially lower in the last year than the year before,
| despite traffic growing by a factor of 4.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=899
Proprietary software cannot compete with that. Only FUD tactic can sustain it
for a while longer. Free speech is becoming free of charge.
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