Funding Free Services
The cluster revolves around discussions on the costs of running free tech services, infrastructure, and tools like package managers or HTTPS, questioning who covers expenses such as hosting, power, and salaries, and debating monetization options like user fees or subsidies.
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Do you pay for it? Maybe they would if people were willing to pay. https costs more resources at scale.
Why not charging prople? If a lot of people use it, you might run off of money.
Sure it could be done, but who is going to pay for it? At $1/1000 uses you won't even be able to cover your hosting fees.
they have to pay for the power and the staff to set them up/manage it
Doing that well would cost money, and people are used to getting their package managers for free.
You don't think some startup will not take fees? Who is paying for infrastructure and salaries?
Charging for it might hurt adoption a bit
Seems it'd take significant costs to run it, how do you still manage to do that?
While it's an interesting idea, that's a pretty big up-front cost per user.
Why isn't everyone installing then? There is a net cost somewhere.