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You are pointing out that the converse of my statement isn't necessarily true. I agree with you: if you are paying for something, you might still be a product.


The statement itself isn't true from the outset, consider NPOs, OSS, Wikimedia projects... It's just a meaningless cliché.


It's a truism, roughly equivalent to "there's no free lunch."




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