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The simple answer is that 98% of users won't pay it. Source: I manage an open source project used by a few million people.
by JohnTHaller 11y ago
The simple answer is that 98% of users won't pay it.
Source: I manage an open source project used by a few million people.
- moonchrome 11y agoBut I'm not saying provide free download as an alternative - I'm saying provide binaries only with the 1/2$ fee - if the person doesn't want to pay they still have the torrents and the source. For example if github provided this service instead of binary releases - you would receive say 50% of the income they keep 50% for bandwidth/service. If the person uses alternative means than you're not spending resources anyway.
- espadrine 11y ago98% seems like a very generous user-base. Getting 20k$ from the 2% in your million users would maintain the download server for at least twenty years. I assume it's much lower than 2%, which would fit my experience. From about a thousand users (a conservative estimate), I get around 10m$/user on average, and 0.3% of paying users.
- justizin 11y agoAnd the SFLC will help you to create the onerous organization you need in order to collect, possess, and spend that money by committee. And that is why everyone turns to the ASF for help in this situation, since they already exist, but that's probably not sustainable. The answer is not clear.