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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> I see no reason why we wouldn't be just as well
> off today, if not better, if all those toll-based software companies didn't
> exist, and instead developers were occasionally paid to add a new feature here
> or there

I think the classic counterexample is computer games. They have huge
development costs, volatile development schedules, and short shelf lives.