On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:01 PM ekke <e...@ekkes-corner.org> wrote: > > Am 28.01.20 um 11:14 schrieb coroberti .: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:55 AM Konstantin Shegunov > > <kshegu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> .... > >> > >>> The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer a > >>> lower priced product for small businesses. That small business product is > >>> btw not limited to mobile like the one Digia had some years ago, but > >>> covers all of Qt for Device Creation. > >> > >> I see a couple of issues here. Firstly, 100k/year *turnover* isn't a small > >> business, that's a nano-company (i.e. 1-2 devs max) and if they're > >> providing a device alongside the software that 100k is going to be eaten > >> in no time. Notice we are not talking profit here, but raw revenue. > >> Whoever from sales came up with that number, really did a botched up job > >> with it. On that note, even if we accept that it's applicable, the > >> straightforward math shows you want to bill 0.5% - 2.5% of the total > >> turnover, so while this sounds good initially it really isn't that shiny > >> when you crunch the numbers. That offering is stillborn from my point of > >> view. > > Agree with Konstantin that the definition of a small business isn't > > realistic. > > The realistic one is up to 5 developers and up 500k/year USD sales. > > > > ... > > > > So, hello, Qt-company, and consider to make something really friendly > > for small businesses ... > > +1 Konstantin and coroberti > > I'm only a single mobile app developer and for me it is ok with 100k and > $499/year > > but I know many developers from small businesses (2-5 devs) and it's > really not realistic to think they have less 100k sales total per year ;-) > > coroberti's idea (up 500k sales per year) covers the target (StartUp, > Small Business) much better and is something making it easier to > motivate mobile app devs to use Qt instead of Flutter, Xamarin, React or so. > > please rethink your definition of StartUp / SmallBusiness to make this > license a success for Qt > > ekke
Thanks, Ekke, And several more params not to miss for a small license: - think how to be customer friendly and not red tape; - charge once a year or monthly - by user selection; - provide a guarantee of not increasing charges for least for 5 years; - provide guarantee of not changing the model for a while. Perhaps, this is not your major market, but you can really get some income here. At the end of the day, you are not providing support and all your income is a pure profit unless you screw matters and push people out. Kind regards, Robert _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
