Dangerous Thinking

On Ecademy Maurizio Morabito points to Rupert Goodwins’ hilarious comparison of publishing with the IT industry’s licencing model:

[JK Rowling's] problem is obvious: she sells people books for a one-off price, after which the darn things belong to those who spent the money. How daft is that? Clearly, she should re-engineer her business model to extract every last pfennig from the public — oops, sorry again. Enhance the user experience and guarantee optimal performance going forward. Forget the retro world of the book publishers: do it the IT way.

With Open Source in the ascendant will, in time, any of the big boys break rank and follow the book publishing model?

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