AI Business Models: Teasing Apart Gratis and Libre

AI Business Models: Teasing Apart Gratis and Libre

Back in 2000, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a graph showing that four countries with unmetered pricing policies for local dial-up internet calls—the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—led the world in a combination of investment metrics (internet hosts and secure servers) deemed indicative of the sophistication of their internet economies. (See Figure 1). Figure 1. Always-On Zones of C…