Re: Re: OODL: OODL - Distributed Collaboration

[Richard Gaskin]

><<In lieu of an FAQ, could I trouble someone to answer just this one 
>question:  With MetaCard providing about 95% of what you're looking for, 
>and the cost of developing an alternative likely to exceed MC's license 
>fee, why not just use MetaCard?>>
>
>Because, OpenCard may initially cost more than a MetaCard license, but it is 
>opensourced, so that anyone may use it for free, and I believe free is less 
>than the cost of a metacard license.

Sorry to trip your sarcasm button.  Yes, even in public school 0 < 995.

Who's funding the development?  I imagine we're looking at an investment 
of a few person-years worth of effort, somewhere in the quarter million 
range of greater.  Who's got that much free time?

Enviously,


- Richard Gaskin 
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