On: Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products

[jonas21]

Joel Splosky wrote a great article on software pricing and price discrimination a while back (gosh, was it really 18 years ago? I feel so old now):

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

[bjelkeman-again → jonas21]

The kicker at the end is great.

> Take my advice, offered about 20 pages back: charge $0.05 for your software. Unless it does bug tracking, in which case the correct price is $30,000,000. Thank you for your time, and I apologize for leaving you even less able to price software than you were when you started reading this

[kubanczyk → bjelkeman-again]

> charge $0.05 for your software. Unless it does bug tracking, in which case the correct price is $30,000,000.

At the time the author was creating a bug tracker (if you want a shallow interpretation).