Why I Charge a $100,000 Software Licensing Fee For 10 Lines of Code | Medium

I present them as products with a semi-proprietary software license to permit conditional usage in public and private source code. Here’s a copy of the publicly-visible, 10-line algorithm that costs $100k to use in a private project. Is this a joke? Absolutely not. It looks like random nonsense at first glance, but it solves a specific challenge of generating random numbers that pass strict tests, most of which take hours to complete, under specific constraints to achieve a specific desired performance. This takes a lot of research and development hours to do correctly before it becomes a finished product, so it makes sense to earn some money from the work. Since 2011, I’ve practiced developing web software and honing my skills. It paid well and I wasn’t receiving much negative feedback. As time went on, more in-house and open-source alternatives were desired. The notion of AI replacing programmers seemed to gain traction, so the reasonable solution was to focus on novel approaches to

I present them as products with a semi-proprietary software license to permit conditional usage in public and private source code. Here’s a copy of the publicly-visible, 10-line algorithm that costs $100k to use in a private project. Is this a joke? Absolutely not. It looks like random nonsense at first glance, but it solves a specific challenge of generating random numbers that pass strict tests, most of which take hours to complete, under specific constraints to achieve a specific desired performance. This takes a lot of research and development hours to do correctly before it becomes a fini