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On 14/07/2015 00:02, Axel Grude wrote:<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Directions for Thunderbird legal and
financial home<br>
<b>To:</b> Tb-planning <br>
<b>From: </b>R Kent James<br>
<b>Sent: </b>Monday, 13/07/2015 22:57:55 22:57 GMT ST +0100
[Week 28]<br>
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cite="mid:55A43463.5050606@caspia.com" type="cite">Repeating my
previous scaling from LibreOffice, think $150,000 per year. (To
put this in perspective, the bandwidth costs using the AWS CDN
network to update approximately 25,000,000 users using a full 40
MB update are around $35,000. We might find ourselves limiting
updates only because we cannot afford the bandwidth. $150,000 is
a small amount of income for a business with our scale.).</blockquote>
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This worries me. If only we could charge 10 cents per download;
that would resolve some of the bandwidth worries and possibly
provide extra funding... Or charge a dollar for a year round
downloads ;-) there must be a way to ease users into a
"subscription" model, however cheap it may be.<br>
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I think you were joking but a subscription for the core product
would never work. Subscriptions for ancillary services might well be
feasible though.<br>
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That said (and as I said in another message in this thread),
charging for value added services also means more dev, maintenance
and hosting costs.<br>
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