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Convincing people to pay for your product isn't free either, but them's the breaks if you want to do legal business.


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It’s not free when you’re the product.

It's not free if you want to sell a product made with it.

As the saying goes, if a product is free then you are the product. In other words, if you can't sell your users, you have to charge them.

It's free to someone who only buys product. It's not free to someone receiving money.

As they say, if something is free you're not the consumer you're the product.

If you're not being sold anything and the company is making money, then you're the product. Nothing is free.

If its free, you're not a customer. You're the product.

Actually there's an entire spectrum of pricing between paying enough to get the owner to agree to give the product or the source to you, and wanting it for free.

Yes. There's also a huge difference between what people want and what they are actually willing to pay for. I bet many of the people interviewd by the author would have be happy to use the product on occasion if it had been free.

"Free" worked for me 10-20 years ago. There was the old "if you aren't paying for it, then you are the product" adage. Now, even if you pay, you are being sold.

If you can't compete with a free product that comes with no support or guarantee, maybe the problem is not the person who made their product free.

You can't easily make a company out of selling free stuff?

> provides services for free

It's not free when you are the product being sold.


It is free to you if your product is free to your user.

If it’s free you are the product. Why is that so hard for people to grasp?

Telling a business it's free to do something if there's no profit involved is like telling a man he's free to drink whiskey if he can jump over the moon.

If the product is free, you're the product. And if the product is paid, you're also the product.

Once someone had something for what he perceived as free, it's hard to convince that person to pay.

“If it’s free, you’re the product” strikes again
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