> On Friday 22 September 2006 14:13, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: >> Horst, I think you missed my point. Maybe because I wrote badly. Most >> Dr's will want to pay virtually nothing, no matter how good the service / >> product. Same as our patients - they all want to be bulk-billed as they >> feel it is a good price. Now imagine if they hear we all like open source >> free software. They will further add to patients wanting free treatment. > > Not my experience. When I occasionally visit another practice and e.g. fix > their network, I invariably get offered money - generously. I invariably > refuse, and invariably end up with some resort or restaurant voucher in the > mail. > > Just wrote a small software piece for the local Division - I suggested a price > and they paid without discussion. > > Guess if I would tell the Division that now they have to pay me $50/month for > the rest of their lifes because they are gracefully allowed to use it, they'd > show me (rightfully) the finger.
But what if they required you to offer support and continually update the program in line with feature requests/requirements etc? What revenue model would you choose to compensate you for your ongoing time commitment? Ad hoc time billing in your example may work, but sending an invoice to 300-6000 sites for every programming change or support call would get a bit arduous. Personally I'd like to see per incident charging for vendor support and the uncoupling of software maintenance from such support, but the market has spoken: http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/PDF/SoftwareReview_JUN2306.pdf Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
