Django-hotsauce 1.0 LTS (Commercial Edition) now available for preorder!!

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Jim Lee <jlee54 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't purchased commercial software in decades, so I'm not up on the
> prevailing business model, but I have to ask:
>
> Why would anyone purchase software and then agree to wait 14 weeks for it to
> be delivered?  I can see that model for hardware, where material resources
> are limited and a finite number of product is produced, but software?
> What's the point?
>

For the 50% discount, I presume. If you wait 14 weeks, then buy, then
own, you pay full price.

>From the company's point of view: if the release date is in the future
and ALL the revenue is also in the future, cash flow becomes tricky.
By getting at least _some_ money in advance, they give themselves a
way to pay the bills.

ChrisA