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

[Etienne Robillard]

Le 2018-06-14 à 02:38, Chris Angelico a écrit :
> 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.


Chris got it right I think! :)

Thank you,

Etienne

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Etienne Robillard
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