Comments on: What is Free Worth? http://blog.groupswim.com/2008/07/21/what-is-free-worth/ Thoughts on Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, and SaaS Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jason http://blog.groupswim.com/2008/07/21/what-is-free-worth/#comment-182 Jason Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:00:19 +0000 http://groupswim.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-182 Nick, Thanks for commenting. I appreciate your thoughts. However, I'm not sure it is a wild exaggeration. Many "free" services are costly in terms of attention, lack of enterprise features, uptime guarantees, etc.. My post is in the context of running a business. As a consumer, I agree with you that the costs of free are perfectly fine. However, if I'm running a business (which we are), the costs of "free" are higher than we all think. Hope this clarifies what I meant. Thanks again for reading our blog and commenting. Please continue. Jason Nick,

Thanks for commenting. I appreciate your thoughts. However, I’m not sure it is a wild exaggeration. Many “free” services are costly in terms of attention, lack of enterprise features, uptime guarantees, etc.. My post is in the context of running a business. As a consumer, I agree with you that the costs of free are perfectly fine. However, if I’m running a business (which we are), the costs of “free” are higher than we all think. Hope this clarifies what I meant. Thanks again for reading our blog and commenting. Please continue.

Jason

]]> By: Nick http://blog.groupswim.com/2008/07/21/what-is-free-worth/#comment-181 Nick Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:22:02 +0000 http://groupswim.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-181 I think it's perfectly legitimate for GroupSwim to charge a fee, but this particular argument is a wild exaggeration. As a user of most of the above-mentioned 'free' services I certainly don't consider the cost of being marketed at to be expensive. Like you, I ignore 99.9% of the marketing and, given this, I fail to see why it slows me down at all, I think it’s perfectly legitimate for GroupSwim to charge a fee, but this particular argument is a wild exaggeration. As a user of most of the above-mentioned ‘free’ services I certainly don’t consider the cost of being marketed at to be expensive. Like you, I ignore 99.9% of the marketing and, given this, I fail to see why it slows me down at all,

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