Would you please stop starting fire in this group? :P On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM, phlux0r <[email protected]> wrote: > Hehe, OK, I should've been more specific on what I referred to when I said > "You get what you pay for". > > It's nothing to do with Open Source as I'm a fervent supporter and user of > Open Source. I merely referred to the fact that you can set up Cushy CMS > within 15-30min meaning it's super cheap, and free to use but has a limited > audience and application. Ie. you get what you pay for in that context - an > ultra simple system. > > Hope that it's clear now :) > > R > > Kent Parker wrote: > > 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] > > > > > > >
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