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The funny thing is, every eCommerce site already knows this at least implicitly. We've all heard the "every X ms of additional latency on the site reduces our
by xxpor 5y ago
The funny thing is, every eCommerce site already knows this at least implicitly. We've all heard the "every X ms of additional latency on the site reduces our conversion rate Y bps". Adding friction to anything means it's much less likely to get done.
Even for commercial software, if it were easy to purchase, I'd still have to figure out how to make sure we comply with the licensing, get the key into the server, figure out how to deploy it (and not be able to inspect the software to see how it works if I need to).
Or I can just go to github, make sure it has an acceptable license, and run import-from-pypy foobar==1.0.
- hinkley 5y agoI don't think Jetbrains would be where they are today if not for personal license that grants the right no use the software on as many machines as I like. When it was introduced it cost just slightly more than 3 technical books, and I knew a couple of people who used that math to convince others to switch to Jetbrains. That license is worded specifically for me to use my private copy at work without exposing my employer to liability. It's surprising to me that more organizations haven't followed suit. But many of these tools run either on the server or on a CI/CD machine so I'm not sure how you'd work that.
- a_e_k 5y agoThis is one of the things that sold me on the Affinity graphics suite. Their license [0] works the same way for purchases by private individuals. [0] https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/licence/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/licence/