Re: Fire Jonathan Schwartz
- From: Roedy Green <look-on@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:20:51 GMT
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:29:22 -0400, Ramza Brown
<berlin.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted :
>"Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday cited
>the company's plans to eventually offer all of its software for free as
>a way to build communities around its technologies"
How does a company like Sun then make money from Java?
Here are some ideas:
1. Eudora/Opera model. You get it free if you are prepared to put up
with ads. You pay a little extra to get rid of ads.
2. soak the big companies huge fees for seminars and training.
3. Get on with subpenny royalties -- a scheme to charge tiny amounts
for using content, programs etc. on a per use/per hour basis.
Everybody can play including websites. Sun skims a small percentage
which eventually will net trillions. This would allow anyone to
afford any program for a short time, have an infinite jukebox, or set
up a subscription Internet radio station where people did not have to
do anything to pay the subscription. It just happens as a matter of
course in browsing unless the fees are unusually high.
The idea is you generally don't bother to own content or programs,
just leadsmen them as needed because it is cheaper and requires no
purchase or up front costs. You have EVERYTHING ever written on tap
without special permission. You can refer people to anything, and
they can see it too for a micro fee. You can even make microbucks by
agreeing to watch ads, or providing your own content. All you do is
release content into the universe and let it disburse and be cached.
It can still generate you revenue even if people did not get it
directly from you.
See http://mindprod.com/projects/bulkfiledistributor.html
Think of distributed websites with self-creating mirrors of what is
currently popular in that region that stay up to date, much the way
DNS servers do. This allows even a small website to serve an enormous
user community.
The amount generated would be a tad higher than the ad revenue
generated now, but without he annoyance.
It would allow freeware to be come micro payware, thus providing an
income for support to the deserving authors to create more -- all
without any effort on the part of author or user to register or pay.
4. Two tier model. You get steerage free, but pay extra for first
class.
--
Bush crime family lost/embezzled $3 trillion from Pentagon.
Complicit Bush-friendly media keeps mum. Rumsfeld confesses on video.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/mckinney_grills_rumsfeld.htm
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
See http://mindprod.com/iraq.html photos of Bush's war crimes
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