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>That logic suggests Microsoft should simply never sell development tools You employ faulty economic reasoning here. Most MS tools are not unique and aren't ev
by BrainVirus 4y ago
>That logic suggests Microsoft should simply never sell development tools
You employ faulty economic reasoning here. Most MS tools are not unique and aren't even best in their class. In cases where they are close, MS charges a lot of money for the privilege to use them.
To put it in simple terms, if Copilot worked as advertised it would cost significantly more than VS enterprise. At some point of usefulness the logic related to selling vs using it internally would work exactly like I described. This is why many companies develop their own software and don't sell it at all even if they could charge for it.
- thfuran 4y agoMy company develops software for internal use and we've even been asked about selling it by some customers who have seen it. We don't sell it because doing so would require a ton of work to decouple it from our other internal services/processes and generalize it enough to maybe be actually useable by other enterprises, would give us a whole second set of customers in totally different industries from that of our main product, and would generally be a total pain in the ass. I suspect that there's a lot more of that sort of thing than the other.