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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity

An excerpt from Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, also reviewed in today’s Boston Globe

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Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity

Posted by Peter at 10:48 AM
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