Programmer: Do you want your program to work on all platforms?

saphil · 14th Nov 2010, 12:48 PM

I am a Linux expert and I program for open-source development projects. See my web site SourceFreedom.com
Are you aware that not everybody uses Microsoft Windows? Most of the programs and applications developed for marketers only address that platform.
A myth I often hear about open-source is that it is always free, so you cannot make any money with it. Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird and so on) is open-source software and they make upwards of 50,000,000 a year. The joy of open-source is that you can get others to develop features for your software without having to have them as employees.

Just because the software is open-source does not mean you cannot charge for that software. Providing software, and documentation costs time, which equates to costing money, so nobody complains about you charging for your product, or for consulting around your software.

Consider developing iPhone and Droid versions of your software apps....

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Costs to you are variable, depending on whether you want to open-source the software, the amount of rewriting we would have to do and the platform you want to develop for. Figure out how much a 15% increase in your target market could improve your income in a year.. Take about 1/2 of that and call that your development budget. Figure less if you really want it to take a year to complete the project. lol

We can port your product to Java, or a cloud-based platform to make it auto-magically usable for all platforms. That opens the other 15% of the market who never even bother to use your great tools, or quickly ask for a refund because it doesn't run properly on their platform of choice.

Wolf Halton
wolf@sourcefreedom.com

SEMwinners · 29th Nov 2010, 04:04 AM

see your email inbox please - eileen

14th Nov 2010, 12:48 PM	#1
saphil New Warrior Member Join Date: 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA. Posts: 4 Thanks: 9 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Do you want your program to work on all platforms? Share on: I am a Linux expert and I program for open-source development projects. See my web site SourceFreedom.com Are you aware that not everybody uses Microsoft Windows? Most of the programs and applications developed for marketers only address that platform. A myth I often hear about open-source is that it is always free, so you cannot make any money with it. Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird and so on) is open-source software and they make upwards of 50,000,000 a year. The joy of open-source is that you can get others to develop features for your software without having to have them as employees. Just because the software is open-source does not mean you cannot charge for that software. Providing software, and documentation costs time, which equates to costing money, so nobody complains about you charging for your product, or for consulting around your software. Consider developing iPhone and Droid versions of your software apps.... Free Bonus Idea ################ # Here is a sales model that a lot of beginning affiliate marketers would embrace # - You, the expert, do all the customer's work for them, for 50% or 75% of their # income for a year, and then they should be able to understand how they need # to proceed to continue making the money. If you are as good as you say, then you # should be able to do this. At least for the first year everything is going through your # clickbank account or whatever, and at the end of that time, you update their page # and let them out on their own. # - Your "partner" success rate would be phenomenal, and so you could start asking # larger and larger start-up fees. ########################### Costs to you are variable, depending on whether you want to open-source the software, the amount of rewriting we would have to do and the platform you want to develop for. Figure out how much a 15% increase in your target market could improve your income in a year.. Take about 1/2 of that and call that your development budget. Figure less if you really want it to take a year to complete the project. lol We can port your product to Java, or a cloud-based platform to make it auto-magically usable for all platforms. That opens the other 15% of the market who never even bother to use your great tools, or quickly ask for a refund because it doesn't run properly on their platform of choice. Wolf Halton wolf@sourcefreedom.com
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29th Nov 2010, 04:04 AM	#2
SEMwinners The Curly Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2010 Location: Cabarete, DR Posts: 46 Thanks: 3 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Do you want your program to work on all platforms? Share on: see your email inbox please - eileen
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