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Re:Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS by zrail on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:20PM (#8962323)
Convincing businesses to pay for OSS is a frustrating problem. I built a gem[1] that has had almost 5000 downloads, 89 since Monday night (rough proxy for production users), related to payments. Exactly zero people have had any interest in paying for the commercial license I offer, even though the gem is directly related to payments.

The pro offering is probably not quite where it needs to be, but to have zero interest at all is pretty discouraging.

[1]: https://www.payola.io

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Re:Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS by pc86 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:01PM (#8967334)
Off topic: This is literally the first gem/package/piece of software I've seen distributed in this way that has sales tax attached to it for residents of a certain state. Is there some Michigan law pertaining to sales tax on software?

My business offers in consultancy-based software development so we are not bound by my state's sales taxes, I was just curious if Michigan has a software-specific law.

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Re:Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS by zrail on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:14PM (#8967447)
It's terrible. I'm a resident of Michigan and so I have to remit sales tax on "packaged software". The rules for what constitutes "packaged software" recently got changed to include anything downloadable. SaaS is specifically excluded, of course.
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Re:Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS by alasdair_ on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:35PM (#8962390)
The problem is that the people that use the gem (developers) are not the people that write checks.
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Re:Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS by zrail on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:40PM (#8962426)
Sure, but then there's Sidekiq Pro which does alright. Something is compelling developers to ask their bosses to write a check.
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