[Info-vax] BridgeWorks

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sat Jul 27 16:53:46 EDT 2024


On 7/25/2024 7:13 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:28:22 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/25/2024 1:51 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> It’s called “division of labour”. It’s fundamental to the way a modern
>>> economy works.
>>
>> But it does not fit with "economies of scale", which is another
>> fundamental concept.
> 
> It does indeed fit with that. Particularly software, which can be written
> once and copied and distributed over and over. If that’s not “scale”, what
> is?

Windows, MS Office, Linux kernel, GCC etc. definitely have economies of 
scale.

Custom software development does not.

Arne





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