SaaS Pricing Models & How They Affect Valuation
Even if people haven’t heard of software as a service (SaaS), chances are they have used one. That’s what makes SaaS such a powerhouse in the world of digital assets. The SaaS business model relies on recurring subscriptions for its income. Subscribers pay to essentially lease software that is hosted in the cloud. This means there are no […]
Data Mesh Architecture: Interoperability, Co-Operation, and Co-Regulation
This paper examines the emergence of data mesh architectures and data intermediaries as key components in emerging data economies. It explores how data mesh arc
Toward Copyleft Equality for All
I would not have imagined even two years ago that expansion of copyleft would become such an issue of interest in software freedom licensing. Historically and for good reason, addition of new forms of copyleft clauses has moved at a steady pace. The early 2000s brought network services clauses (such as that in the Affero GPL), which hinged primarily on requiring provision of source to network-remote users. Affero GPL implemented this via copyright-controlled permission of modification. These licenses began as experiments, and were not approved by some license certification authorities until many years later.
Principles of Pricing | SaaS Pricing Strategy Frameworks
Practical frameworks to build a best-in-class pricing strategy for B2B SaaS and Cloud businesses: packaging, price metrics, price levels and more.
What-if: crates.io paid subscription for commercial use
In @nikomatsakis' 2020 blog post, he calls for a shift in focus "from adoption to investment. (...) for Rust to really thrive, we need to see more people paid for their work on Rust teams. I wanna accept that call-to-action and propose one such opportunity for investment. tl;dr: The online service Crates.io could start charging commercial users a nominal fee, collected purely through opt-in payment; no paywalls or licensing changes. How crates.io could turn a profit without hurtin' anybody ...
Parting Clouds: Creating a Competitive Marketplace for Compute | Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project
The Canadian market for cloud computing is monopolized. In a new report, CAMP argues that the most effective response is to unleash competition through procurement, regulation, and competition law enforcement.
Simple Pricing | Machine Learning Infrastructure | Deep Infra
We provide only pay-what-you-use pricing with no long-term contracts or upfront costs for our machine learning models and infrastructure. Learn more!
Switching Costs in Software Development
The story of why it is important to make sure that it is easy to switch from one service to another.
Pricing
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Licensing terms for data in the Atmosphere
I’d like to raise a fun and interesting topic, and that’s intellectual property and content licensing. The data that flies around the Atmosphere is all visible and public. We’re at a stage within the Atmosphere where services are beginning to grow, and we’re beginning to see lexicons and data that express creative works that extend in length beyond microblogging. I think that the Standard.site lexicons are a great example. But these creations lead to further questions. Who has permission to...
An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software
What if open source software had an organization like ASCAP for distributing royalties?
"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/
Bridging on a budget
blog.anew.socialThis approach to a data commons could extend to so many typically shared things. For businesses to easily and authoritatively publish things like open hours or product catalogs, discographies, every kind of -ography... creative appmakers could do so much with all that
JB Hutch
Testing an idea that I've had for a while, but I think is even better suited for atproto Internet, meet plts.at
