RE: Open Source vs. FREE - WAS RE: [cms-list] Are there any .AsporC# Open Source Content Mangement Systems out there?.. (Nuno Lopes) --------------- I hope I'm doing this right...I've never posted here before. ---
Anyhow, Nuno, I agree with you 110%. I am also in the middle of developing portal/CMS software (www.sitebeater.com). I guess that means that we could be competitors! :) But, I also spent a great deal of time trying to decide how to market my product. Should I go open source? Or, pay? I basically came to the same conculsions as you did -- open source is only going to pay those who USE your product. I don't know for sure (of course), but I'm willing to bet that those guys who made C, PERL, etc. didn't receive more than several thousand dollars -- if they were lucky -- over the lifetime of their "products". Course I could be wrong... I was also thinking the only way for me to go open souce was to already have a strong enough client base to support my company. Then, while I had my client base, I'd create my CMS/portal software. Then, once all that was done, and I was using it in-house with all my clients, I'd release it (or a subset of it) to the public. ...nahh, too involved, too long (years to get clients), and I'm a developer not a marketer so getting clients is ultra hard for me. And, going from personal experience here. Everyone wants a freebie. I've had --thousands-- of people download my beta software and only TWO (!!!TWO!!!) have offered to help with the testing. TtttWWwwwOoooo! ...give me a freaken break. How many of those would actually PAY me for consulting if all they are looking for is a freebie? Like, none. Anyhow, Nuno, you and I should get together and swap stories :) l8r --Dean Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.SiteBeater.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
