[sdiy] Secrets [Was: Discrete OTA]

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I think one of the important aspects here is that free software exists
because it's not trivial to use, and people make their money by
selling support for it. I wonder if a model like this could work for
audio equipment.

D.

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Paul Maddox <yo at vacoloco.net> wrote:
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>> On 11 April 2014 01:36, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Even if, as I have done above, we assume that human time is free,
>>> hardware development costs real money out of your pocket.  Software
>>> development doesn't.
>>
>> It doesn't _now_.
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> sorry, I disagree with both of you.
> Software development *does* cost money
> lets look at the cost of a compiler, a good one can be £2000 per seat.
> So say you have two developers, there's £4K.
> Next you'll need a couple of development platforms, say £1K a piece.
> Now it's going to take time for the software developers to get up to speed
> on your platform and the task at hand, good programmers say two weeks.
> based on £10 an hour, two developers, 40 hours a week, there's another
> £1600.
>
> Say the work takes 3 months, including integration and test, that's £9600.
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> so, cost of your software development - £17200.
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> remind me of how this is "zero cost" for software development.
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> Software isn't zero cost, but it has a much lower "direct" cost.
> Where software does score is that to reproduce it requires almost zero cost.
>
> Paul
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