Sentence examples for freely available commodity from inspiring English sources
"If something goes wrong, you can't even try to fix it". But the free-software model meant scraping a slim profit from the packaging and distribution of a freely available commodity in a fringe market, which might have offered reasonable returns in the short term but wasn't likely to deliver sustained profitable growth.
Philip Mirowski argues that a powerful neoliberal ideology promoted a radically different view of knowledge and discovery: the fruits of scientific investigation are not a public good that should be freely available to all, but are commodities that could be monetized.
He recognized that a product based on freely available components would soon become a commodity.
In much the same way that SIM cards played a vital role in the sharing of music in Saharan Africa, the easily-pingable nature of bluetooth meant that songs became a public possession, a tradable commodity, an almost freely available form of entertainment.
In real life, sugar is now almost as freely available as the gingerbread on the cottage in "Hansel and Gretel," yet in our bedtime stories it remains a precious commodity.
Is treatment freely available?
Afghan hashish was freely available.
That data is freely available.
Contraception was not freely available.
