Yeah, I was following this one too. I see both sides, but I take the side of open source. My skills have progressed quickly because of places like these lists and the web sites that post their code. When i learned FuseBox, I gained far more knowledge by looking through the code then I would had if I had only read the book. If I had to pay for the code, I wouldn't have. I most likely would have dropped it right there. Instead, I looked at the code and read the information and then bought the book because I saw the value of it. Plus I wanted to be able to support the developers in some way. Now, I haven't made any contributions to further development, but every developer I meet that asks about CF, I tell them about FuseBox and how great it is.
Michael Corrigan Programmer Endora Digital Solutions 1900 S. Highland Avenue, Suite 200 Lombard, IL 60148 630-627-5055 x-136 630/627-5255 Fax ----- Original Message ----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey To: CF-Community Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:26 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 ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
