On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:09, Jerry Amundson wrote: > Y'all ain't been 'round here long, have you? :-) > Investment? Hmm, I paid $0 US.
While this might come as a surprise to you, time required to study, learn, configure, customize, deploy, and maintain any piece of software is indeed a considerable investment. I'm sure you've heard lots of hype about "total cost of ownership" and how the upfront software costs are negligible. It's not unreasonable at all to assume a non-trivial deployment of Courier, or any piece of Free software for that matter, is a significant investment and that means his question is legitimate. Luckily, any OSS project with a "critical mass of users" (an apropos term used elsewhere in this thread) will continue to be developed and supported even if the maintainer goes away. Nautilus is a good example, as it was fronted and being funded by Eazel, which went out of business, but Nautilus still continued because enough people with time, money, motivation, or all of the above were keen to see Nautilus development continue. Best, Jason. -- Jason Tackaberry :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: 705-949-2301 x330 Academic Computing Support Specialist Information Technology Services Algoma University College :: www.auc.ca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
