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Hardware costs are different to software

Of course web hosting cannot be offered for free because it costs money for the place to hold the servers, the electricity etc. If you really want you could host your own website in which case you would only need to pay your isp for access to the internet.

If the web was proprietary in the same way flash is then it is logical that the cost would probably be higher because it is a monopoly.

Software is quiet different because the only real cost is writing the code. Once this is done it costs virtually nothing to distribute it since it can be downloaded from the internet.

Also the internet is mainly open. I have a couple of small websites which I wrote using completely free and open source software. I used a text editor which is very common for people who have the skills to develop websites because it is as fast as a wysiwyg editor and you have more control. And of course any web scripting is hand coded anyway.

I can code a website by hand which I can view in just about any browser and it will work because of the open standards of HTML. This is good for me as a developer and good for those people who want a choice of browser like me. I was using firefox well before IE7 so if the web had been closed then I would not have had as good an experience due to no tabs etc.

Also you seem to be wrong about the middleware part as well. The majority of websites use apache server on linux and a huge number use open source MySQL and open source php which is also the most popular scripting language. So two open source products are the most commonly used and the third is also highly popular and used on millions of servers so I would assume it is robust.

Posted by: quantumstate   Posted on: 04/30/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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