Micro Payments

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!!

  • 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