On 09-Nov-2007, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > My experience is with a data-acquisition application in my > university.
> They asked me to write it because the commercial[1] ones were too > costly. Over time, they asked me to add a lot of features, as they > were seeing how to improve its usefulness while using it. At what point in that process did your custom-written program provide more of what they wanted than was provided by the non-free alternatives? > It quickly became more expensive than the alternatives, for them. More expensive than developing one of those non-free programs to have all the features they had requested, and got, from you? -- \ "Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse." -- Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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