Adam/Tom,
I'm just a small user myself and only monitor a few devices/machines. Regardless the small outlay to get a piece of software, which by the way, when I found it has made my life easier to manage my stuff when I'm away is great. If people/massive organisations can't afford $160 US per year then don't use it, keep with the free version and stop bitching.
I love reading these email list's adam, keep up the good work and you'll see my money shortly
-----Original Message-----
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong
Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2013 2:50 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium Community / Professional
On 2013-10-08 16:35, Tom Laermans wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> First of all, thanks for the support :-)
>
> I don't think anyone really feels (I wouldn't know how) that £100
> yearly is a lot of money - rather that their company/school/whatever
> is set up in a discouraging way which prefers to spend, indeed, 25000
> or more $currency on the same product, or does not have a credit card
> (wut?), or has an insane expense policy.
> However if they feel they want Observium enough, I'm sure they'll find
> a way to pay for it. Be it out of their own pocket, by stealing the
> CEO's lunch as a payback, or simply by poking their accounting
> departments enough until they budge.
>
> I'll gladly help any of those out with a larger invoice and a bank
> account number though ;-)
Personally, I think it's just people playing up to an image and wanting to seem hard done by. It just seems to me like an awful lot of nonsense from a sector which is used to getting an 80% discount from Microsoft et al on huge orders.
We all know that if there's any sector on the planet which is not short of cash, it's the US EDU sector.
There are a lot of people here who have paid, a lot of people who I suspect work at companies with a turnover measured in hundreds of thousands of euros. I think it's absurd that an organisation with a budget of $1.5 billion can possibly claim to be hard done by.
We've already offered a free license to a not-for-profit educational organization which does have a legitimately limited budget, so it's not like we're just trying to get the cash. I just don't think it's fair to the people who have paid, to give freebies to organizations with a larger budget than the most cities.
If we get enough supporters, I'd like to *lower* the price. That won't happen if we fall in to the corporate welfare trap.
adam.
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