Yep, makes sense. Well done, it's the closest to our model that I've seen until now.
> -----Message d'origine----- > De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de > Xavier Antoviaque > Envoyé : lundi 5 juillet 2010 11:21 > À : [email protected] > Objet : Re: [HackIt Bar] Looking for a example of freemium business > model in open source > > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:49 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > > From what I see in the premium features, these services seem to rely > > on the fact that wordpress hosts the blogs (and then provides paying > > services on top of this hosting). But as you say, they seem to push > > people to host their blogs themselves. So I'm not sure about the > > economic logic here. > > I think the economic logic is: > > - People want good & cheap blogging software > - They provide a very good one for free to download, to build a brand > and the best software through a free software project > - Some of the bloggers won't want to take care of the hosting, but will > rather have Wordpress than another software > - Their hosting plateform then becomes the best place to host it - even > if only a very small fraction of the bloggers use it, they will still > have a lot more customers than if they did everything closed from the > start (because of brand notoriety, and software quality) > > Xavier. > > _______________________________________________ > Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] > > Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ > List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ > Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ > Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ > IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
