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Re: A world where people pay for software

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Post by Kinrany »

spuz wrote: post #6
robalni wrote: post #2

This is my project, so if you have questions, I can answer them in this thread.

The whole website is very confusing. Why would a user want to subscribe to only one developer? Why does subscribing to one developer give access to all developers? Why not put yourself in the middle and offer a subscription to "1Sub.dev" and give users the same benefits? What does it mean to "give access to downloads and other resources"? What kind of downloads and resources? Can you give some examples of services th…

> Why not put yourself in the middle and offer a subscription to "1Sub.dev" and give users the same benefits?

That's simple, decentralized networks are better than platforms and this thing has no need for centralization

Re: A world where people pay for software

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Post by grodes »

Pay to download or for other services: Not worth it; users can find the software somewhere else and they don't need your other services. ... The user subscribes to a developer of their choice and in return, all developers (and everyone else who wants to) can give that user some kind of benefit, like giving them access to downloads

Re: A world where people pay for software

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Post by samsquire »

This is timely, I recently commented about paying for software [0], professional software is very expensive, but it's very expensive to create.

There's thankless work such as programming language development, operating systems (Linux), databases and Linux distributions that are profoundly valuable. Even just wrangling them from a devops perspective is painful though.

I've never paid for any of the work that went into Ubuntu, Python or Java (I use Corretto) or MySQL or C.

I kind of want a community of people that help run a sideproject PaaS and solve the things I would prefer not to work on. Servers that are up-to-date and patched and scalable and robust.

I use OmniNotes on my Android phone, I use FreeFileSync, Typora (paid software), IntelliJ Community.

What's a price that you would pay pay for your open source software?

If it was like Spotify, spotify is like $9.99 a month and apparently 210 million susbcribers according to Bing search "spotify number of subscribers". That's a fair amount of people's living costs to pay for.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827698

Re: A world where people pay for software

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Post by bronxpockfabz »

robalni wrote: post #2

This is my project, so if you have questions, I can answer them in this thread.

> As a developer you sell subscriptions independently; you set the price, handle the money and do all of the interactions with the customer. Then you register the subscription in the system by using a simple API.

What prevents me, as a rogue actor, from just adding all my mates to the database without them paying me anything? Would they get access to all other software from the developers who take part in this affair?

Re: A world where people pay for software

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Post by Brian_K_White »

There does need to be some way for ordinary users to pay something to somewhere in a single convenient way, voluntarily and in voluntary amounts, that somehow ends up being pooled and distributed to or otherwise benefitting all the 37,000 developers and projects whos free work they use all day every day.

This isn't it.

I donate a little to the EFF, monthly automatic, and a few other things irregularly as I feel particular gratitude. It leaves a million people unaccounted for, but all you can do today is pick a few things that matter to you and let others get the others.

And/or pay back/forward by contributing a little work of your own to the commons which I also do, but you can't expect most to do that, and I don't claim mine is valuable. Actually come to think of that, the reason I work on the things I work on is mostly because I just want to, so maybe most of those million are fine and there's no problem. But come to me with any kind of demand, well, I guess that's when paying enters the chat.

Re: A world where people pay for software

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Post by Otek »

I know people hate Subscriptions but honestly I quite like them. I can pay for one month usually not very high price to use software when I need it. Problem is to be solved by developers, they should give more often option to buy lifetime license, or allow you to use software for lifetime after you payed for 1 year of subscription (without updates). It’s just not profitable enough I believe. Maybe we will have appropriate laws in the future - that’s the solution I would like to see
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