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xorglorb on July 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how ...

> Many of us work on SaaS solutions, which have little to no marginal cost, yet we charge for the service.

The cost of programmers to create the product, the cost of servers, system admins, etc. Those aren't small costs.

neilc on July 7, 2011 [–]

> Those aren't small costs.

No, but they are largely fixed costs, not marginal ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost

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