Dave appears to be unwittingly advertising his services for free. Open source is simply a different model in which you don't pay for the software itself, but you still pay for the implementation of it (except maybe in Dave's case where he does it for free).
There is another axion: Time is money. For some clients it is more cost effective to pay someone to use free software to run a website for them than to learn the stuff and do it themselves. It still costs them money regardless of whether the software is open source or proprietory. +1 'for you get what you pay for' +1 for 'time is money' On Jan 14, 1:22 pm, David Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 12:24 +1300, phlux0r wrote: > > Also, you get what you pay for. > > Actually, I would've thought that open source, once and for all, would > have squashed that well rebutted one-time axiom. Let's stop treating it > like a glib truism, because it's not. > > In some contexts, yes, you get what you pay for (typically with scarce > goods, i.e. physical things that don't have a near $0 replication cost), > but with software (as with other digital goods like online content, > music, and web search), that's demonstrably untrue. > > Cheers, > > Dave > -- > David Lane = Egressive Ltd = [email protected] = m:+64 21 229 8147 > p:+64 3 963 3733 = Linux: it just tastes better = > nosoftwarepatentshttp://egressive.com==== we only use open > standards:http://w3.org > Effusion Group Founding Member ===========http://effusiongroup.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
