For all those studying economics ...
Adding on to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods
In terms of Private Goods - in the Australian example
LNG, Iron Ore, Rice ...
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Non-Rivalrous and Exclude able Goods
Common Pool Resources
Posts which are shorter,
not as involved and
not so complicated!
Please refer to:
for these labelled Posts.Microsoft has certainly done a great job, obviously they re-sell software themselves - but active re-sellers for their products is also very powerful, more so than End - Customers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#Lowering_software_development_costs
One thing I would draw to your attention to is how they help their ecosystem Commodotise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification arguably the most available & common way of reducing cost without reducing quality!
So this applies to Microsoft Customers as well ... for instance in the way they are able to use Office (as a basic example) -
A big advantage over Oracle where it is harder and costs are borne almost entirely by the end - customer.
That is to say Commodification is key and should always be considered - whilst the Executive doesn't really re-sell - at this point in time however a big re-seller has not really been tapped - the Legislature of the Commonwealth Government through their ability to enact laws!
That is to say we all know at a high level the Commonwealth Legislature has the ability to reduce costs without compromising quality (perhaps even taking a different approach to Commodification) even if this is still relatively untapped!
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Just a quick point on re-selling -
Commercial Dishwashers can clean cookware squeaky clean probably due to their volume - try that in a home dishwasher!
