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[–] 30 points 4 days ago (14 children)

It costs money to maintain software?

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    I Kagi's case they are paying per search to connect to APIs to search other search engines and aggregate the results. They have a very real cost per search that isn't only maintaining software.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Wouldn't that be part of the "maintenance" cost? If I run an ice cream cart, I need to keep purchasing supplies to keep selling ice cream.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Technically yes I guess, but I would expect "maintenance" to refer to the cost of keeping the ice cream cart working and looking good, I wouldn't expect the wholesale cost of ice cream to be in the "maintenance" column of my cart finances.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (3 children)

    No, usually materials cost is tracked separately from equipment maintenance.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    God dang people, maintenance is in quotes for a reason.

    Wasn't supposed to be as technically correct as possible. Meant to express to the original person that things cost money, that's it.

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  • [+] -21 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Ahh. So you’re fine with all the ads on YouTube? Two and a half minutes of commercials every 8 minutes on streaming services? Unblockable ads on websites?

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  • [–] 18 points 4 days ago

    I block all ads from all sites on the internet.

    I pay money to the fediverse hosting foundation because hosting software costs money. I pay creators to create content because creating content costs them time and if they are going to do that thing, they need money.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Ahh. So you’re fine with all the ads on YouTube?

    No, that’s why I pay for YouTube too. If I wouldn’t use it as much that the price is worth it, I would likely not use it at all (besides the irregular link thrown over my fence ever once in a while).

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