Here's a thought... You discover a bug in closed-source software. You notify the developers. You are told, after paying the $xxx per-call support fee that yes, this is a bug and will be fixed in the next version. You wait X months/years and the new release costs another few hundred/thousand $, just for your fix.
You discover a bug in open-source software. You notify the develpers. They say "cool, we'll fix that". The new version has this fix and is released a few days/weeks after the initial notification. Given that most of the tools I use are open source, a) I'm geeky, b) I've had experience with many web development languages out there so if I find a bug/problem in an OSS tool I'm using I often fix it myself and contact the developers with the *fix*. This is something I did recently with the mailing list system PHPList. It has lots of features but is quite buggy. So after comparing it to the alternatives I joined the dev team and have been squishing lots of bugs. (Note: I'd use a CFML list manager if our web host supported CFML) Those are my experiences anyway. -- Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014 #include <stdjoke.h> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194677 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
