I was merely voicing my disagreement with the point he was making which was this:
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. The assumption is that you pay nothing for Open Source. Well a developer might, but from the perspective of a client, it doesn't matter if the system is Open Source or proprietory, they still pay for it and the axiom is still true that you 'get what you pay for'. Dave states quite flatly that it is not true. I disagree. That's all there is to it. Open Source != Free On Jan 14, 3:06 pm, Gold <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > -- > Regards > Gold > Evolved Development +64 21 > 248-4653http://evolved.net.nz/ > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
