Kai Yuen Kiang

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since January 25, 2001

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January 25, 2001, on Software Pricing:
Just like me, I believe a lot that is in the computer industry has felt the inherent problem of the current business model of the software industry deeply. Since I started learning computers, I feel more and more that the software industry is actually a service industry, that is we should be charged per usage rather than per package. However, both business and technical problems exist; the business people do not want invest yet another big money to revolutionize the distribution network to support the new business model, the network bandwidth is not yet there earlier. However, I believe that the world is converging to what is optium, the ASP model arises, which I believe is what we are after. The challenge now is probably the change of our mindset to adopt this model... Also the open source wave now is also leading us to the next generation of computing business. Just give it more time, as changing people's mindset is probably the biggest, and most time consuming part of the whole revol...