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The price of free

By Mark Vanderbeeken - January 31, 2009

in Tech

Chris Anderson has an article today in the Wall Street Journal about an economy based on free goods and services online.

But as Luca De Biase (chief editor of Nova, the innovation section of the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore) points out: it is not the gift economy Anderson talks about. It is an economy of services that few pay for but many use.

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