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Re: OCA Repositories in Odoo Apps Store

by
InitOS GmbH, Frederik Kramer
- 10/06/2020 14:03:14
Hi Pedro, 

all fair points. Legally "royalty free" is NO Price. So i almost bet my
ass the contract would fail to grasp our case (but of course they
invent something new than).

High commission of 30% definitely is an issue but probably the bitter
pill to take

For sure we shall ask the contributors for their take. But i think
if we get a large majority +1 for such a strategy any surplus we gain
from "selling" these modules can be used to 

- improve the modules marketing
- sustain the OCA
- do the actually (from a technical perspective) non important job (of
upating this html file)
- still be visible on the official App store

About pricing. Unless there is a term in the contract, i'd do a machine
learning algo that determines the perfect price ;-) And that is
probably as cheap as a litre of milk ;-)

Maybe we shall discuss it on the board first, but the more i think of
it better i like it, because to me it still feels like the most
intelligent think to do to deal with their strategy to get ours right
on the long run.

Best Frederik

Am Mittwoch, den 10.06.2020, 11:51 +0000 schrieb Pedro M. Baeza
(Tecnativa):

> Frederik, I don't think it would be a good idea to put a price in

> Odoo Apps Store, due to these reasons:

> 

> - The more important one: Odoo forbids in their conditions to have

> the module with a lower price (free in this case) available in other

> places. This was something highlighted by Ivan Yelizariev in Twitter

> and I think it's still not enforced, but it's a matter of time. He

> can comment about this if reading this thread.

> - The high 30% cut that we will lose.

> - The maintenance burden we will have, as manifest must be modified

> for accommodating to extra requirements in paid apps.

> - How to price each module? Same price? Number of lines proportional

> price with the need of computing this?

> - The support that must be done in those modules. Not sure, but I

> think there's certain obligations in paid apps.

> - The possible complaints of module authors about money getting to

> Odoo and OCA, but not them.

> 

> I see OK to modify the README template for adding the link to OCA

> Apps as a minimal action for now, but don't have the silver bullet

> for the general problem.

> 

> Regards.

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