Convincing businesses to pay for OSS is a frustrating problem. I built a gem[1] that has had almost 5000 downloads, 89 since Monday night (rough proxy for production users), related to payments. Exactly zero people have had any interest in paying for the commercial license I offer, even though the gem is directly related to payments.
The pro offering is probably not quite where it needs to be, but to have zero interest at all is pretty discouraging.
Off topic: This is literally the first gem/package/piece of software I've seen distributed in this way that has sales tax attached to it for residents of a certain state. Is there some Michigan law pertaining to sales tax on software?
My business offers in consultancy-based software development so we are not bound by my state's sales taxes, I was just curious if Michigan has a software-specific law.
It's terrible. I'm a resident of Michigan and so I have to remit sales tax on "packaged software". The rules for what constitutes "packaged software" recently got changed to include anything downloadable. SaaS is specifically excluded, of course.
The pro offering is probably not quite where it needs to be, but to have zero interest at all is pretty discouraging.
[1]: https://www.payola.io