> I know this is not the place for this, but I just have to ask this > question of the community. What is the benefit of developing a > commercial grade application and then giving that application away for > free? I see message boards out there where people have obviously spent > hours and hours of development time and effort, just to turn around and > give the thing away. Is this type of mentality not hurting the > development community? > I understand that a message board is not that > huge of a deal, but some people are trying to make a living developing > such items. Is it not more beneficial to design a product and sale it > for the going rate of such an application?
It makes me wonder if maybe he had dreams of building and selling such a thing, but got miffed when he found all the free ones floating about. ;) > I would have posted to the > community list, but hardly anyone really reads it. heh .. no one reads it? When was he here last ... Jan of last year? I have 10,935 just from Sept 27, 2001 through today Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. Hatton Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:26 AM Subject: Hey Alex, Over Here!!!! (Was Re: OT: Just Wanna Bitch) > (I'm moving this thread over here... if Alex reads this list then we can get > some conversation going on this side... I've been spanked too much this > month already for keeping OT threads alive on the CF-Talk List) > > > > Also, on the comment that "hardly anyone reads" the community list... > why do > > > I have almost 8500 emails from that list in my folder? > > They list server sends out a lot of duplicates. > > (*chuckles*) Yes, there are dupes but not that many ;) > > For those who didn't catch the original thread on the CF-Talk list, here's > the original post from Douglas Brown: > > I know this is not the place for this, but I just have to ask this > question of the community. What is the benefit of developing a > commercial grade application and then giving that application away for > free? I see message boards out there where people have obviously spent > hours and hours of development time and effort, just to turn around and > give the thing away. Is this type of mentality not hurting the > development community? I understand that a message board is not that > huge of a deal, but some people are trying to make a living developing > such items. Is it not more beneficial to design a product and sale it > for the going rate of such an application? I am eager to hear what > everyones thoughts are on this subject. I would have posted to the > community list, but hardly anyone really reads it. > ------------------------------- > Enjoy! > Hatton ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
