We need better standard economic models for "free" software. Paying the creator of SumatraPDF a grand total of $100/month for his efforts is two orders of magnitude away from acceptable given how many people use it every day.https://twitter.com/msinilo/status/1419831948571197441 …
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Replying to @cmuratori
A lot of this is just friction. If you could just push a button at the top of the program to pay $5 to unlock half the features, and this frictionlessly got paid kind of how things work on phones, lots of people would do it.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @cmuratori
I'm not so sure about that, I know people that back in the day when WhatsApp wasn't free switched to other apps for not paying $1/year or whatever it was. Friction wasn't the problem, money wasn't the problem either, some people just don't want to pay for software.
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WhatsApp was estimated to have 700 million users paying $1/year at peak. I would not call that a "problem" with anything. I would call that an excellent proof of concept that way more than enough people will consider paying something for their frequently-used applications.
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