[gus_massa]

From https://semut.io/making-open-source-truly-open.html

> Consider an example of a company with 10,000 employees. If the company uses Slack for $10 per user per month, the company would be shelling out $1.2 Million annually. In theory, the company can use Mattermost (An open source alternative for Slack) and save $1.2 Million annually.

> However, to deploy Mattermost and ensure 24/7 availability, the company will need at least a small team of devops engineers available on call round the clock. The overall cost including the cost of recruiting, replacing and managing combined with various other ancillary costs makes self hosting Mattermost as expensive as a commercial SAAS offering.

I agree, but is your service going to cost less than $10 per user per month? How much do you get? How is the rest split between the contributors of the project?

[mansooratsemut]

We anticipate it to be significantly less than $10 per month. The final cost would depend on various factors. Primary factors being the price of the service (which will be set by the developers of the service) and size of the deployment (larger deployments will have significantly lower cost per user).

How will the money be split amongst the contributors will need to be determined by the community itself. The community (we assume the community to be a not-for-profit registered company) could employ engineers full-time and/or build a framework which will assign a dollar value to every contribution based on factors like quality, complexity, quantum, etc. Semut does not play a role in this. We enable open source projects to be available as a service with minimal engineering effort and enable monetisation of the service (while the code remains open source).