HOW TO TRADE SOFTWARE FOR SMALL MONEY?

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It's easy for system engineers to make something that is valuable and widely used, but quite a lot harder to get paid for it. The competition is often free software maintained by well-funded teams and there is a community norm where it is seen to be mildly immoral to charge money for software. Pricing models for systems software is also tricky. This post looks at various options for pricing models. SaaS software is likely more prevalent as VCs don't think that non-SaaS companies make money.