What Makes Something "Better Than Free"?

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 15, 2008 @09:41PM from the better-than-better-than-ezra dept.

Stanislav_J writes "In a very thought-provoking essay entitled 'Better Than Free' Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at Wired, probes the question of how thoughts, ideas and words that are so constantly, easily, and casually copied can still have economic value. 'If reproductions of our best efforts are free,' he asks, 'how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?' He enumerates and explains eight qualities that can, indeed, make something financially viable — 'better than free.' A very timely article in light of the constant discussion of RIAA/piracy/copyright issues."

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Mono by Anonymous Coward · 2008-02-15 22:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Read all about how Mono dependancies sneak into Novel and even Ubuntu:

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/15/mono-contamination-in-ubuntu/

There are many choices in oss but Novel is sticking to their agenda and always prefer the Mono-based solution. That is better than free because it promotes MS agenda and makes Novel have *some* profits at least.