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I can understand how you feel and I also think your blog post is correct in many ways. However I think software should be reasonably priced which is most often
by merb 8y ago
I can understand how you feel and I also think your blog post is correct in many ways.
However I think software should be reasonably priced which is most often not the case.
And also people can't pay everybody 5-10 dollar/euro for everything, we would quickly need to pay thousands of dollars/euros yearly to access/use everything.
That's why I think sometimes having another way of "paying", like through ads or maybe some kind of crowdsourced project is a good alternative for some things.
- paulcole 8y agoMaybe you just need fewer $5-10 dollar/month things than you think? At that price you could have 100-200 of them before “quickly” needing to pay thousands of dollars yearly.
- deepakkarki 8y ago100-200 services would add up to $1000/mo not per year.
- paulcole 8y agoduh, I am an idiot. Too early.
- michaelmrose 8y agoI have 1278 packages installed on the computer I'm using now it takes 11 items 5-10 bucks a month each to spend 1000 dollars annually. Thanks open source.
- IncRnd 8y agoMaybe you don't need everything.
- TimJYoung 8y agoIt would be competitively priced if everyone started charging for their software and the market filled back up with participants. The concept of free software has decimated the software industry by entrenching existing players and allowing them to exist unchallenged, so of course it has resulted in higher prices from the remaining companies.
- mimimihaha 8y agoAnd then it comes around full circle when to get advertisers you need to market them properly to specific people who would be most likely to buy their products. Then you start collecting data on users to figure out who would match with what, then the customer becomes the product.