Julia's business model

leon
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:31:37 +0000
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I recently switched from Matlab to Julia. It is my first time to use an open-source programming language. So far I have been loving it very much. I am very grateful for all the help from this very friendly Julia community!

One thing I have been wondering is that how could we make this tool available to everyone for free? Right now, I am donating monthly to this project, but the “donation” nature makes it hard for me to pay Julia using my research project funding. I would recommend the below business model:

Free for personal use

Charge a one time fee of $1000 per person for each business use (commercial and academic) to get a perpetual license.

That way, we would have more funding to allow more people to be full time on making this wonderful programming language even better.

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