On 7/9/07, Felix Geisendörfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beyond that, most of these sites aren't necessarily set up to make money. > Every use I've had for Pligg so far has been a use that I wouldn't have ever > bothered to even *try* to make money with it. That wasn't the point. > Providing a niche-specific place to share and rank links *was* the point. > For that, the Digg featureset works well and a clone allows people to set up > those niche sites easily. > > Are you the one who made the initial post from a different address? I'll > assume your not but it sounds like it. > > Anyway, you made some good points and I agree with them. It was probably > my "this guy is looking for someone to do his work"-alert-sensors going off > a little too early ; ). I pictured a client asking for a digg.com clone > for ~$250 and somebody trying to modify something existing to make this > ridiculous request working - excuse my fantasy being a little too vivid > sometimes : p. >
Nope, not me. I'm just someone who does a lot of work for clients behind the firewall and am often looking for existing tools to integrate into their environments to accomplish their goals and save them the money it would cost to have me build it from scratch. As such, I run into your argument from lots of people when I ask about existing open source tools. In a similar situation to the question that was asked, I've been accused of being a spammer because I was looking for an open source tool to send 25,000 messages at a time to specified mailing lists for a client who had that need. The recipients were not only opt-in, but had *paid* to get the messages. However, just by asking, I was painted as a spammer because people couldn't possibly conceive of another purpose for sending that many messages. All too often, lots of assumptions are being made (not just here, but in lots of forums) when someone asks if there's an open source implementation of a given set of functionality. The assumption you made (that of an Elance-style cheap knockoff for commercial purposes) is just one I've seen made quite a few times and I wanted to offer possible reasons for wanting such a thing that *aren't* under that umbrella. -- J Wynia - Software Developer, Writer and Geek Half empty? Half Full? Or Just Too Big? Site: http://www.wynia.org Podcast: http://www.glasstoobig.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: jwynia --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
