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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You make the service available, simply a single online instance at the server. You then multiply your typical license fee (multiple years?) to the potential
customer base (schools and maybe even per child) and [wallah]! Your ‘largess’ is exorbitantly large! Might even be a tax write-off worth even more than the ‘gift.’
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Vaclav Petras<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 02, 2015 6:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Cc:</b> discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For example, reading through <a href="http://news.aag.org/2015/05/aag-seeks-proposal-authors-reviewers-for-new-ap-course-in-gist/" target="_blank">
http://news.aag.org/2015/05/aag-seeks-proposal-authors-reviewers-for-new-ap-course-in-gist/</a> i understand that "In 2014, Esri announced a $1 billion gift of cloud-based ArcGIS Online software to support the Obama Administration’s ConnectEd initiative.
This remarkable gift is providing free ArcGIS Online accounts to any public or private school upon request. " I am interested to understand how this $1 billion gift is calculated? Can anyone knowledgeable on this provide the details of these metrics use for
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I don't know about their calculation but here is mine:<br>
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If I provide service for $100 per customer and I give the same service to 10 customers for free, I could claim that I donated $1000. But this would be wrong. I need some money to run the service for the non-paying customers and I need to get this money from
the paying customers. Thus, the price $100 already contains money to run the service for non-paying customers and the gift $1000 is therefore overestimated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well, these are my two cents. Correct if I'm wrong.<o:p></o:p></p>
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