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I tend to agree with you, but your aside about it being Saas-centric is really important.

One need only open Microsoft Teams to see the “billing time” costs. If the billing time cost is not paid by the developers or their company, then it stop being a cost to them and it becomes an unpriced externality. Who cares, who even knows, that this app we’re writing runs slowly on regular people’s old hardware.




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