Wow, that's a lot of interesting insight. I like the DIY for a bug in open source vs a dead end to a bug in closed source as a really solid example. I think that helps open source win vs closed source. Although I do believe it is an extreme case. Does anyone have more insights to offer?
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Lee Bolding <l...@leesbian.net> wrote: > > On 8 Jan 2010, at 15:09, Sid Bachtiar wrote: > > > And are you talking about your real experience or you're just > hypothesizing? > > Real world, it's the structure we're setting up at the startup I'm > currently working at. IMHO we've spent far less, and have far superior > support and quality of product than we'd have had if we'd gone the route of > taking on additional employees - that's less financial risk and less > technical risk too. > > I kind of get the feeling that for a lot of people open source some has to > be the solution to everything - it's not. Sometimes, being pragmatic means > using commercial products or services. Sometimes it's worth letting somebody > else do the expensive (both in terms of money and time) R&D and reaping the > rewards by paying comparatively little for that work. If you're blinkered by > open source it can lead you into all kinds of difficulties. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en. > > > >--
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