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It's open source with a pay x% once you get big enough to make $y thousand a year. It's proven effective and I hope more open sourcers copy the business model.
by brador 11y ago
It's open source with a pay x% once you get big enough to make $y thousand a year. It's proven effective and I hope more open sourcers copy the business model.
Imagine if Mozilla was supported like this instead of being paid for customer data. It would be a game changer.
- mrec 11y agoWhat would be the browser equivalent of "once you get big enough to make $y thousand a year"?
- brador 11y agoX number of employees? The principle of the model is make em pay once they can afford it. So having X employees would usually mean the company can afford to pay say $10 per employee per year to use it.
- TrevorJ 11y agoI understand what you are getting at, but that particular example sounds like a great way to convince companies to adopt a 'no OSS software on work machines' policy.
- brador 11y agoAnd what else would they use? You have regular paid software, or OSS software that scales with your business at a reasonable price. I know which i'd take.
- Mizza 11y agoMozilla cares about software freedom.
- brador 11y agoMozilla cares about serving their paymaster. Right now that's Yahoo through search integration. Under this scalable model it will be users.