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117 million downloads every month. 1 cent a download = 117,000,000 cents = $1,170,000. So the project is dying because they cannot get every downloader to pay
by vfclists 5y ago
117 million downloads every month.
1 cent a download = 117,000,000 cents = $1,170,000.
So the project is dying because they cannot get every downloader to pay 1 cent for every download.
Even at 1/10 cent it would still come to $117,000
This is how screwed up open source is.
An advanced technological industry which doesn't have infrastructure in place to collect fractions of cents per product delivery.
Why can't the software be downloaded using an API using a key you have to pay for or something?
- GianFabien 5y agoI can't understand why there are 117 million downloads every month. I doubt there are 117 million programmers using Babel and why download it every month?
- Too 5y agoI'm sure 99% of all CI systems out there are just blindly doing npm install without any cache or pinned packages. Multiplied with microservices so that every run has to rebuild not just one service.
- toomanybeersies 5y agoFor the savings in data transfer, it's not worth the time to set up and kind of caching for package dependencies. To mitigate the risk of supply chain attacks, on the other hand...
- GianFabien 5y agoI hadn't thought of that. Internet access isn't virtually free everywhere in the world.