Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:44:51 +0100 From: Milos Prudek <milos.prudek@tiscali.cz> To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Pay or DIO (Re: Quality vs. Quantity )
Suppose it's $5 monthly for subscribing. If there are 100 subscriber, Dieter got $500 monthly.
Realistically it would be more like 10 subscribers. Believe me.
Mm.. could be, but as far as I am concerned, I would most likely pay for example $100 / year for a good support list, where I would know that there is a person dedicated for answering people's questions and this way also updating somekind of knowledge pool. The procedure could be something like this: 1) People who use zope commercially would propably have no problem coughing up $100 / year. Let's be overly optimsitic and say that there would be 100 subscribers, which would make up $10 000 for Zope Corp. 2) Zope corp. would then use this small amount of money to put someone's worktime into keeping up this list and updating answers into free knowledgepool. Some of the questions posted to the list would propably be found in the database, so the work would be copy & paste and some minor editing. Also other persons on the list would contribute to the problems posted by others - thus contributing more to the knowledgepool. 3) Everyone outside this list, would be able to use the knowledgepool free and this way also benefit from all the answers... Ok. This would only work - if there would actually be atleast those 100 users paying the small fee to help the cause. This would only work - if that money would actually be used to have someone answer questions and maintain some kind of better answer database. Or am I just too idealistic? I wouldn't mind contibuting to this kind of thing financially if I would know that there are plenty of others too! It means more help and money in long run also to me, if I can help Zope become more popular and better product -- and get better help to my problems. -huima