RE: Charging the Charger

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Anderson, Kelly wrote:

> If on the other hand, I say "Hey, I have this idea for software that 
> will change the way people do X, and it will save Y kinds of people N 
> dollars so that their ROI is 7 months, and there are 350,000 Y people 
> out there and here's how I can reach them. Oh, and here are my projected 
> financials." then I'm going to get the money if the numbers work and are 
> believable.

What if the I in the ROI above is money not for the software, but for 
support of the software, while the software itself is free - are you still 
going to get the money?

Grisha