Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
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Re: Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
#2Quite a neat insight and somewhat confirming what I think personally; Linux users largely don't use Linux for FLOSS reasons. People who do use Linux for FLOSS reasons are however rather loud.
I would probably not be wrong when saying that most Linux users will happily pay a developer for the binary of an application if the dev is "doing it right". Doing it right largely involves "don't treat the customer as a walking wallet" and "don't fuck over the customer".
Most people would probably happily give you cash for that but I suspect Windows people and especially Mac people are more used to paying cash to get software ... sort of and then being treated like a walking wallet. Example: Anti-Virus vendors and Adobe.
Re: Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
#3I would insta-buy a lot of linux proprietary software if it fit my needs. No question, no hesitation.
Things like: lightroom, sketch, omnigraffle,
Your email client looks very well done! Doesn't apply to me, but if I had to use outlook/office 365 I would probably snap it up.
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#4Other than being engaged by Canonical, is there a reason the Snap platform be preferable to the Flatpak one?
Re: Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
#5Completely unrelated to the contents:
Please, publishers, I beg you: walk away from medium. It's terrible for us, your readers. Set up a static blog, with a domain, go WordPress, Grav, Typo3, anything, but without stupidly large sticky header/footer and without heavy javascript.
EDIT: apparently 121KB javascript is not heavy. I still believe it's an overkill for 30KB content.
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#6I am increasingly happy to pay for software and services as long as the organization producing the software has no relationship with advertisers. I would rather pay money than use something for free that includes advertising. If there are good open-source alternatives I will always prefer those, but there are definitely some things that open-source will never be able to really make work effectively (notably anything that relies on having an attractive and efficient GUI)
Re: Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
#7I'd imagine for most Linux users (not all, of course) that they're not interested in paid proprietary products, which is why they chose Linux in the first place.
Re: Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
#8Completely unrelated to the contents: Please, publishers, I beg you: walk away from medium. It's terrible for us, your readers. Set up a static blog, with a domain, go WordPress, Grav, Typo3, anything, but without stupidly large sticky header/footer and without heavy javascript . EDIT: apparently 121KB javascript is not heavy. I still believe it's an overkill for 30KB content.
I think people are going to Medium because they say it pays from subscribed users. Not an easy thing to do with a static blog.
Re: Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
#9Completely unrelated to the contents: Please, publishers, I beg you: walk away from medium. It's terrible for us, your readers. Set up a static blog, with a domain, go WordPress, Grav, Typo3, anything, but without stupidly large sticky header/footer and without heavy javascript . EDIT: apparently 121KB javascript is not heavy. I still believe it's an overkill for 30KB content.
I think people are going to Medium because they say it pays from subscribed users. Not an easy thing to do with a static blog.
> they say it pays from subscribed users
What's the actual money flow from that, less, or more, than 1cent/reader? Does it actually worth it?
Re: Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
#10"First stop, reddit"
Dont go to reddit for market research. You will only find extreem views on reddit. They are the younger crowd. Try the ubuntu or mint forums if you want to talk to average linux users.
I myself would pay for such an email client because no good foss one exists atm. But i find it very odd that such basic software isnt yet free. I dont like the idea of having my email handled by propietary software.