Re: Let's make Emacs mainstream (through org-mode)

[James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com>]

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> I have a feeling that a flat rate of 5 or 15 dollars a month would
> be a difficult way to run such a business.

Well, perhaps. A lot (almost all) of SaaS is supported with $5-$15/mo.

Let's imagine a hypothetical Emacs engineer takes for $60/hour.

Most of the work would involve:

* Link to the correct tutorial
* Write a short sentence telling them what command they need to write

The rest is knowing good tutorials.

And sometimes they would have to write a tutorial that should exist.

For $10, that's 10 minutes of the engineers' time.
Smoothed over all the other customers time, on average, this could
certainly be viable: Each query can only take 30 seconds to answer.

I've heard a lot of people talk about just how much time they invested
into their Emacs configurations... imagine if we delegated the effort
to the most knowledgeable about Emacs, saving time and creating
revenue.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:50 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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>   > I am short of funds at the moment, so I could only pay $5/month. But
> I'm
>   > sure
>   > other non-students could afford $10/mo or $15/mo for access to support
>   > on a powerful editor.
>
> Does anyone want to offer support for Emacs?
>
> I have a feeling that a flat rate of 5 or 15 dollars a month would
> be a difficult way to run such a business.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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