Suggestion for PHPLD: Set up a Security Fund

[manager]

With the intent of helping PHPLD move up to a higher level of the script food chain, I offer a suggestion.

Why not establish a Security Audit Fund, which gets a (small) portion of registration and Supporter's Forum use fees, and add an optional "donate $10 to the security fund" at checkout time? Of course make it available as a stand-alone donate link as well for after-the-fact use... every update download can prompt for a donation to the cause, etc.

With some proper sales copy the case can be made for this and perhaps it would be successful.

The higher-end users need to know that cross-site and injection opportunities are covered before they can trust the script. It's the low end (free) users who don't care. So if you are starting to charge for PHPLD, and want to satisfy paying customers... or get more of them, set up a fund that gets directed money for security auditing and patching. Make a big deal out of it... it wil get you attention and perhaps funding.

$25 or $75 pricing is a marketing shot at getting the low end to pony up some cash. $127 or $147 will eat at the middle market scripts from below... which is where the money seems to be. Rather than cannibalizing your market of "free" users to get paid users, keep the free users happy and go after those paying $247 for other scripts that are not as promising nor as dynamic as PHPLD.

One way is to pay attention to security, and a Security Audit Fund might get you going in that direction.

Offered as an idea.

[Kevuk2k]

Hi there,

I'm sure you mean well but don't you realize that an awful lot of users on this forum and moreso the ones who use the free or buy the script are 'newbies', there are very few who have a clue about what on earth you are on about and would only see this as a post to encourage asking for more money from people? When you write in open forums you have to have a fine balance on how to explain things, don't complicate the uncomplicated. Type in Security Audit Fund in any search engine and you'll see what I'm on about and I've run Companies for a long time :shock:

Ideas that are of the higher level should be addressed at such and perhaps a p.m to the owner would be more pertinant in this case as most won't have a clue about what this post is about! This is not meant as disrespectful to anyone, if some do know then great, but I'm sure that as many people there are that don't know php from html, they won't know Security Audit Fund, to the Save the Wildlife Fund!

I for one happen to disagree with your thought, but that is only an opinion, just as yours is a thought!

All the best, please don't take offence at my response, I am only giving my opinion in a clear fashion ok :wink:

Kev

[David]

I am considering a small price increase to help us be able to better support people, and also to be able to do more audits of the code in general (not just security).

[Kevuk2k]

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Changed my mind, a response is not warranted.