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> Why would customers pay you to use your product when they can just do a git clone and use your product for free? Support? Consulting? Hosting?
by jimktrains2 10y ago
> Why would customers pay you to use your product when they can just do a git clone and use your product for free?
Support? Consulting? Hosting?
- ythn 10y agoIn other words, tech savvy customers will not be paying for my product since they will just host locally and use community support forums. And if my product is marketed to tech savvy people, that's a huge hit to my market.
- jimktrains2 10y agoThat's not entirely true. There are services I pay for that I don't want to run at home. Sometimes the convenience is worth it. Look at tarsnap. It's basically just encrypting files and sending it to S3, entirely open source, and he's still able to charge. I'm sure he's not living the high life off of it, but most people aren't off single products anyway.