Distributed Computing Economics
- 1 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Queue
- Vol. 6 (3), 63-68
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1394127.1394131
Abstract
Computing is free. The world’s most powerful computer is free (SETI@Home is a 54-teraflop machine). Google freely provides a trillion searches per year to the world’s largest online database (two petabytes). Hotmail freely carries a trillion e-mail messages per year. Amazon.com offers a free book-search tool. Many sites offer free news and other free content. Movies, sports events, concerts, and entertainment are freely available via television.Keywords
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