[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 114, Issue 39

Roland Hughes roland at logikalsolutions.com
Mon Mar 29 12:07:46 CEST 2021


On 3/28/21 7:31 PM, Scott Bloom wrote:
> Short answer from the customer (yep commercial version here) is no.
>
> We were told by support, here is what YOU will have to get working.
>
> Scott
>
And here we see the flaw of the model.

"Support contract only" commercialized OpenSource projects don't drop a 
paying platform. True, they may start charging a lot more to keep it 
around. IBM did this with the System 36. Kept raising the price of the 
annual support contract until it cost more than replacing the machine 
with an AS/400.

To have a "Support contract only" model though, the bug database has to 
be reasonably clean. Fixed, not just deleted.

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