The whole idea behind this is that selling software sounds easy to do, but sometimes it isn't. For exmaple which would be worth more to me, developing an application and maybe selling it to a few people for say $500 a pop or making that application, getting some help on it for free, giving it away for free and have other people contribute to it and make it better. I for one am making a content management tool, hopefully one day it compares to these products that cost $30,000. One day you may open it up and say what is this guy Bob crazy becuase it looks like he spent hours doing it, but I'll be laughing becuase I wasn't the only one doing work. So I got something, the people who helped got something, and now you'll get somethign and maybe you'll stay with ColdFusion because of it instead of jumping to PHP where they already have a tool that does this.
Robert Everland III Dixon Ticonderoga Web Developer Extraordinaire -----Original Message----- From: Mark A. Kruger - CFG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Just wanna bitch Hey that's great - how do I sell my clients on these..... oh wait... -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Just wanna bitch Open Source The best thing to hit software development in the last decade! Open Source projects have produced some very good software. For example: Apache Web Server Tomcat Servlet/JSP app server Xerces XML parser Xindice Native XML Database Server And these are all from www.apache.org not to mention www.sourceforge.net, and many other hosts of Open Source projects. I realize you specifically are talking about end-user apps (ie. message boards), but I think it fits the same foot. Kurt Ward -- Insert Fancy Footer Here -- This space intentionally left blank ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Just wanna bitch 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. Doug Brown ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
