On May 8, 9:52 am, "Joel Cass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience I have worked on 4 different CMS' before FarCry > (admittedly one was the precursor). One of the things that always made > it difficult for a client to adopt a CMS was pricing. The second obvious > thing was support.
Just a quick note... FarCry has no precursor but FarCry. Although FarCry shares some concepts with Allaire Spectra, such as content types, containers and publishing rules -- that's where the similarities end. > The CMS market is extremely competitive and my only concern is that > putting a price on FarCry may spell its demise, especially if the price > is prohibitive when compared to open source or free CMS solutions out > there. > > However I think the GPL is a good move as it makes the CMS practically > free for SME's to develop their own sites, and allows vendors and > corporations (who should be able to afford reasonable fees) to continue > running. It's important to note that applying the GPL to FarCry means that it will *always* be free with respect to cost, and open with respect to source. > From my experience (as noted above), the second killer is support. > However, daemon support FarCry very well, and it is one of the selling > points that have encouraged our clients to use FarCry, as some competing > CMS', even those that require hefty licensing fees, provide little to no > support at all. I guess support time costs money too, and Daemon should > probably ask for something in return. Thanks for that! Of course folks are welcome to purchase any of a range of FarCry support services from Daemon at any time :) > I only hope that daemon choose a licensing model that is reasonable and > does not cripple the feasibility for clients to consider Farcry as a > suitable solution when compared to other free / open source CMS > solutions. Many open source CMS are under GPL (perhaps most of the majors). One key differentiator with FarCry is that we *can* offer a Commercial license. Solutions like Mambo, Joomla, Drupal cannot offer a closed source license -- its the GPL or nothing. All the best, -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
