The cost of creating software is one of the forces that led to centralization.
- The cost of creating software is one of the forces that led to centralization.
- Users have to go where the software is.
- Especially software that gets better with more usage, either directly or indirectly.
- E.g. social networks, or things like search engines that use sifting social processes.
- All of the data has to flow to one place to make the software better.