Comments on: Hell freezes over – Matt Asay on the problem of open source revenue models

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451 CAOS Theory » What is Open Core Licensing (and what isn’t) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:20 +0000

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By: 451 CAOS Theory » Managing expectations with Open-Core Licensing

451 CAOS Theory » Managing expectations with Open-Core Licensing — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:27:50 +0000

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By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:22:03 +0000

Welcome to the blogosphere. Nice first post. The model you refer to has also been referred to (not widely, although I use it in a forthcoming report) as Split Licensing (to differentiate from Dual Licensing). I’ll follow up with more discussion later.

By: Andrew Lampitt

Andrew Lampitt — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:18:04 +0000

I started typing a response, and then it got too long. You prompted me to finally start a blog: http://alampitt.typepad.com/lampitt_or_leave_it/

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:29:37 +0000

Thanks for the comment Dennis. SaaS would appear to be a potential answer to the problem, although it doesn’t solve the issue Dennis Howlett identified about customers wanting to be treated as individuals.

By: Dennis Byron

Dennis Byron — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:45:41 +0000

Yes, Matthew, it’s called SaaS these days. Used to be called Application Service Provider and before that–way before that–a service bureau.

About a quarter trillion dollars a year are now spent on software sold in the market (as opposed to written inhouse). It is paid for via license fees, maintenance subscriptions (be they for software whose source is open or otherwise), advertising support to the software developer, business service fees where the software is bundled in the service, and so forth. Only a fraction of that is license fees and only a fraction of those license fees relate to new business. Most license fee revenues are for upgrades, new users, etc. Actually the license fee business model is a relatively new method; only about 30 years old.

Dennis

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