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Well, what is the marginal cost of software distribution?

Just bandwidth cost. Literally a fraction of a cent.

There are a lot of costs to software distribution, but the vast majority are sunk costs, not marginal. By contrast manufacturing has significant marginal costs.

This economic fact may be relevant to any decent analysis.



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