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> The ones that dont make money dont know how to Read The Fine Manual. Can you elaborate, do you mean that making money selling software from one's own website
by jpmoral 11y ago
> The ones that dont make money dont know how to Read The Fine Manual.
Can you elaborate, do you mean that making money selling software from one's own website is a well understood and replicable process? Not trying to argue, I'm genuinely curious.
- jacquesm 11y agoIt used to be a well understood and replicable process. But these days I'm really not so sure that it is either well understood, or replicable. The late 90s are gone and won't be back and selling software got harder, not easier since then unless you sell apps.
- fsloth 11y ago"selling software got harder, not easier since then" Can you elaborate? I'm fairly clueless - I thought services like stripe which streamline payments and Steam that serves as a whole distribution platform would have made software sales (for PC:s) easier.
- jacquesm 11y agoThere was a time when everything you did with your computer was an application. Nowadays a very large portion of that work is done with a browser, either for free or ad supported. So the market for licensed software sold to end-users has contracted, and the delivery mechanism (installing downloaded software for your PC) is more and more tainted because of malware and rogue installers.