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No. You sell additional premium extension to provide needed left out of the open-source offering. You sell cloud hosting and on prem hosting. There is nothing at all wrong with that. That you have built a business where you make a living from software you wrote is awesome. I wish I could.
...which are open source.
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Pretty cool product. I have a very similar product but my question is that how did you convinced the users to pay for the product if its already free
It's not "free" in the sense that there's a download button for it. 99.9% of the people wouldn't be readily able to build the app from source. Given I've spent 3 years building it, I feel comfortable selling it for this price. When I first released the app I didn't have the source code available; so it's more like a "commercial product" with the source code available if anyone is interested.
thanks man !!
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1. There is no link in the article to the zip file. 2. Searching for open3A in duckduckgo brings me to a page that spits out PHP errors and doesn't give me anything. 3. The only way that I now know where the zip file is, is because another commenter linked to it. 4. We've seen companies disguise something as open-source, when it wasn't. 5. Open source is commonly hard-to-sell. So no, it wasn't 10 seconds to verify an…
Fascinating. I consider myself to have reasonable mastery of my tools and I usually pick good tools for my purposes. Here's a re-enactment of how I detected the license: https://i.imgur.com/Gr4xMT5.mp4 It's near trivially easy.
Following the recent events, wait until multinational corporation x comes, repackages your software as a managed solution, hosted on their infrastructure and resells it through their channels.
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Fascinating. I consider myself to have reasonable mastery of my tools and I usually pick good tools for my purposes. Here's a re-enactment of how I detected the license: https://i.imgur.com/Gr4xMT5.mp4 It's near trivially easy.
Did you record that with lice cap?
Here's another one I like when I want my face and audio in: Screenity https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity (very easy code to work with too).
No. You sell additional premium extension to provide needed left out of the open-source offering. You sell cloud hosting and on prem hosting. There is nothing at all wrong with that. That you have built a business where you make a living from software you wrote is awesome. I wish I could.
Given that the main software is AGPL, the extensions would also be open source.
This is not necessarily true. If you are the sole copyright owner, you can have your main product be AGPL and sell proprietary extensions; there's no reason why you need to enforce your copyright against yourself. Alternatively, your combined product could be under a proprietary license that is not the AGPL.
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I'd be a bit wary of something as important as invoices on the Rpi storage though. Hopefully there's some automatic backup.
Every single time the RPi comes up in an HN thread, someone mentions the reliability of SD cards. The truth is: 1) Regular SD cards were never designed to be OS volumes, of course they're going to fail when used for that. Buy better SD cards, like ones with high write endurance. 2) RPi 4 does not need to boot off SD card. It can boot from any USB drive of your choosing, or over Ethernet.
I don't know if I've mentioned this on HN before, but my brother works for an oil services company, and they have deployed hundreds of RPis across sea and land rigs, mostly in the middle east. The land rigs are mobile, and as you can imagine, the middle of a desert in Oman is a pretty hostile environment. Despite this, they haven't had even a single failure across all these devices in over 5 years. Not one - and they boot from SD cards!
The stuff running on the RPis isn't very write heavy, and the cases are only lightly ruggedised (I forget the brand, but they are consumer gear, nothing fancy), and I forget what brand the SD cards are - but this is why I roll my eyes every time this is mentioned on HN (which is every time RPi is mentioned on HN). I really wonder what fraction of people repeating this reliability claim even have an RPi.
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This is a bit confusing to me. They sell the plugins, but also the plugins are licensed that a customer can redistribute them to other customers legally? At first it sounded like 'open core' with the plugins not being open source, but if the plugins are open source too... I guess people pay for them, priced modestly, just for the convenience and support?
>convenience and support Also initial access, and updates. Extensions are not mentioned on the free download page ... https://www.open3a.de/page-Download ... rather, pay-per-download: >If someone wants advanced features, I have a shop! In my shop the users can buy many of the extensions I have developed over the years. The prices are reasonable and start at 20€ (~$24) up to around 80€ (~$96) or so. The price contains…
I think this kind of mismatch stays under the radar when the stakes are pretty low, they probably aren't making tons of money off of this. If they were, someone else might try to get into the game. And if the pricing of the extension was a lot higher, more would probably use it (entirely legally) without paying.
I wonder if they would do better with an English version of their website? I was looking for something exactly like this early last year and I found no mention of it (and googling in English doesn't bring it up now either).
She is fine with only targeting the German market, it is big enough for her.
I sell my MIT open source Video Hub App for $5 ($3.50 goes to a cost-effective charity - it's charityware). Over the 3 years it's resulted in over $9000 donated to protect people from malaria. Public: https://videohubapp.com/en/ GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App Charityware: https://medium.com/@whyboris/charityware-doing-good-with-pro...