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Charging by the hour is a great way of making users minimize use of your software. This is exactly not what you want your users to do. Some idiot will try this,
by stubish 5y ago
Charging by the hour is a great way of making users minimize use of your software. This is exactly not what you want your users to do. Some idiot will try this, but will quickly learn and revert or go under. Especially dumb with something like MS Office where the whole system is designed to keep users in the system 24x7 and reliant, rather than encourage alternate solutions for bits and pieces. Slash your software licensing costs by pasting text from notepad rather than typing it in MS Office, survive this months budget cuts, eventually realize you can do without the software entirely.
- tobyjsullivan 5y agoYou could make the same argument about per-user pricing. And you wouldn't be wrong.
- enraged_camel 5y agoThis is true, per user pricing can result in stuff like customers sharing user accounts. Although it’s easier to counter that effect with per user pricing by adding things like audit logs, which are very valuable (and even required) in some industries.
- friedturkey 5y ago> Some idiot will try this, but will quickly learn and revert or go under. Or, more than likely, every major software company in a certain domain will coincidentally release metered software in the same time period and small indie developers will be trying to compete with products that have 30+ years of familiarity (and not really succeeding). Then other software industries will adopt the system within months and it'll be inescapable. This is precisely what happened with subscription services.