Re:On paying for software
by mimimihaha on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:21PM
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And then it comes around full circle when to get advertisers you need to market them properly to specific people who would be most likely to buy their products. Then you start collecting data on users to figure out who would match with what, then the customer becomes the product.
Maybe you don't need everything.
It would be competitively priced if everyone started charging for their software and the market filled back up with participants. The concept of free software has decimated the software industry by entrenching existing players and allowing them to exist unchallenged, so of course it has resulted in higher prices from the remaining companies.
Maybe you just need fewer $5-10 dollar/month things than you think? At that price you could have 100-200 of them before “quickly” needing to pay thousands of dollars yearly.
Re:On paying for software
by deepakkarki on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:08AM
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100-200 services would add up to $1000/mo not per year.
duh, I am an idiot. Too early.
Re:On paying for software
by michaelmrose on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:39PM
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I have 1278 packages installed on the computer I'm using now it takes 11 items 5-10 bucks a month each to spend 1000 dollars annually.
Thanks open source.
And also people can't pay everybody 5-10 dollar/euro for everything, we would quickly need to pay thousands of dollars/euros yearly to access/use everything. That's why I think sometimes having another way of "paying", like through ads or maybe some kind of crowdsourced project is a good alternative for some things.