Pay for services

Ragchew
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What’s this about “at some point in the future, offer pay for services,” ? Please explain, thank you VE9ZZ Jr

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Future services such as cloud syncing may be subject to a small subscription
Alan

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Just to be super clear here about my plans with PoLo and other Ham2K projects:

PoLo is “free, as in speech”. It’s Open Source, and will remain open source.

PoLo is “free, as in beer”. It’s available at no charge. All the features you see right now will always remain free. I will NOT do a “bait and switch” on users later.

But developing and running PoLo is not free to me. There are significant monthly costs, not to mention all my time.

Right now our users have been very generous with their contributions thru the app and Buy Me A Coffee and we can cover those monthly costs.

But new features, like Cloud Sync, might have significantly higher costs that cannot be covered with donations alone, so we might have to charge a fee to use them.

And other potential new features might not be useful for a broader audience, but very valuable for a small number of users so perhaps putting them behind a donation would be a way to make it worth developing. I’m not saying I’m planning to do this, just that it is a possibility.

I summary, my intentions are that whatever is free now will always be free (and open source!), some services might have a cost, but it should be reasonable, and perhaps some new features might also have a cost, but again it should be reasonable.

And if I fail to deliver on this promise, someone else can take the open source code, fork the app into their own version (with a new name, mind you!) and try to offer it themselves.

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Thank you for the explanation. I was under the impression that the cloud service was going to become mandatory. I want nothing to with “the cloud”. They have enough of my information as it is. Thanks again for a fine piece of programming. I intend to make a donation in the near future when funds permit. 73 VE9ZZ Jr

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No, it will definitely not be mandatory.

I’ll event try to provide alternate sync methods to other services or apps when possible.

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