I agree with David: tough question. Take my case: I've been following the OF mailing list for a couple of months for the main reason of learning how the product is evolving, how mature it is and how it's used in production environment.
The (very small) company where I work would benefit from a product like this, but this is just not the right time to get started on such a project (too busy with other things). Eventually I'll give it a try, test it and then propose it as a solution to my boss. Bottom line: if I can freely fiddle and experiment with OF I'll eventually manage to get to the point where I can tell my boss this is a viable solution for our needs. At that point, I have no idea how much he will be willing to pay for it. Sure enough I won't be using the iSCSI part for quite a while. Hope this can help you figure out how to support this great project. I will be more than happy to "donate" some money to support it (once I start using it, that is :). Ciao Maurizio -----Original Message----- From: David Touitou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 29 May, 2006 08:54 To: Rafiu Fakunle Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OF-users] What would you pay for Openfiler? Rafiu, you know this is a though one... Asking people how much they are ready to pay for OpenFiler (you can replace this by any other opensource initiative/project) is _very_ difficult, as you'll always have some stating "hey, this is opensource, it should be free"... Anyway, even if I'm ready to pay for OpenFiler, I have no clue how much I'm ready to pay per year (or single shot or other). Would it be possible for you (either technically possible but also, if you feel like it) to propose different levels of subscription (with "license keys") ? I would sugggest : . free for people who want to use OpenFiler as just a filer usable by http or ftp (or local users) . a subscription for people who want to join an existing domain/AD or use OpenFiler as their PDC (2.1 or 2.2 if I understood correctly ?) . a subscription for people willing to do iSCSI This would allow people who want to "discover" OpenFiler to discover it and people using it in "business" usage to pay for it. I guess 99USD per year sounds nice (even 199 USD per year). David. -- A: Yes. >Q: Are you sure? >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
