Micro Payments are the need of the hour!!
I was just doing some rough calculations about the downloads of my Open Source softwares and figured that even if I got 25 Cents for 25% of the downloads that have happened over the past two and quarter years I would be sitting over nearly $100K
Man I can live like a king on that kind of dough!
Thankfully at least I don’t have to pay for the bandwidth…
Yeah! we are talking about 1.6 million downloads, agreed there is a lot of ifs and buts involved… Heck whats wrong in dreaming that one day it will be true!!
Most of them photographs
Let’s see:
1. It’s open source, but you charge 25c for downloading a copy.
2. It’s a sale. You can say the source code is free, but its a sale. It’s like saying, you can download a song for free, but you have to pay 25c/download.
3. If you’re into sales, I don’t have to tell you what comes next. Support, Documentation, Performance Guarantees and of course, Insurance!
Good luck making the $100k in 2 1/4 years. Sorry to burst your bubble.
You seem to have lost the distinction between Open Source Software and Freeware – Open Source need not be free.
I run a rather successful enterprise so I know what commercial products involve, only people below the IQ of 60 will expect support, insurance!!! in 25C
It is take it or leave it, the license says so – believe me it is not a bubble which has burst as yet – it is an idea whose time has come even though the technology is not yet up to it.
>> IQ of 60 will expect support, insurance for 25c
Well, they say you get what you pay for. But if you argue for micropayments for your product/s, expect people to demand a better set of services. It’s a basic issue of economics- if you want a greater subset of people using your products, you would typically undersell it, at a loss, until you dominate the industry.
And insurance was not for your clients. Its for you. You don’t want to end up losing your clothes by selling a quality product at a cut throat price, do you?
Dude! you are talking theory to a person who is actively working towards making micropayments a reality – cant say more than this at this stage
Well, you can take your high and mighty attitude elsewhere. Good luck.
ROFLAO – Kid you are really lost, take *your* trolling elsewhere, this is *my* journal.
I hate to say this even to an uninvited guest BUT please get out and stay out!!!
Know what, that’s really amusing. But then, guests are not allowed in here. I’ll add you to my friends’ list.
Oh, I forgot to add, micropayments have a tendency of conflicting with antitrust laws.
Heh. Cloud 9…
Which software is this? 1.6 million dnloads? Congrats! That is awesome!
Not just one software but about 5-7 as a combined total