On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Kent Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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'

I think you missed the point Dave was making.  Was that intentional?
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