Comments on: Free is the future of business http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/02/26/free-is-the-future-of-business/ SydneyFreeNet, community driven, free, wireless access all across Sydney. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:35:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: aDB http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/02/26/free-is-the-future-of-business/comment-page-1/#comment-29 aDB Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:04:16 +0000 http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/02/26/free-is-the-future-of-business/#comment-29 Thanks for that link John - Kevin does make some great points and that article really adds to this conversation! Thanks for that link John - Kevin does make some great points and that article really adds to this conversation!

]]> By: JohnAllsopp http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/02/26/free-is-the-future-of-business/comment-page-1/#comment-28 JohnAllsopp Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:02:56 +0000 http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/02/26/free-is-the-future-of-business/#comment-28 Kevin Kelly has a detailed article putting some meat onto the bones of this issue - a very good read http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php john Kevin Kelly has a detailed article putting some meat onto the bones of this issue - a very good read

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php

john

]]> By: halans http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/02/26/free-is-the-future-of-business/comment-page-1/#comment-26 halans Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:43:20 +0000 http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/02/26/free-is-the-future-of-business/#comment-26 Yes, look at Google, everything in perpetual beta, most of it free (unless you need more functionality in your Google Apps); Sun stuff, everything free (except hardware of course, or for software when you start to deploy stuff and need the performance). Of course it also has to do with tie-ins. Still, it seems to be a valid business model for a lot of companies. Unfortunately free is often perceived as "not good enough" or "there must be something wrong with it". Yes, look at Google, everything in perpetual beta, most of it free (unless you need more functionality in your Google Apps); Sun stuff, everything free (except hardware of course, or for software when you start to deploy stuff and need the performance). Of course it also has to do with tie-ins. Still, it seems to be a valid business model for a lot of companies. Unfortunately free is often perceived as “not good enough” or “there must be something wrong with it”.

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