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Re:Decommissioning a free public API by zanewill9 on Monday February 01, 2016 @10:31AM (#11012263)
In my experience, people/companies will pay and in fact, want to, once they rely on a service enough.

People generally get that payment gives them some semblance of rights (whereas consuming for free does not).

If you're running a free service - make payment an option. It really does benefit some class of users.

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Re:Decommissioning a free public API by waxjar on Monday February 01, 2016 @12:40PM (#11013431)
Taking money gives you all sorts of unpleasant responsibilities to deal with. That's not something everyone wants, especially not if you've got a day job you're not planning on leaving.
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