David writes: "Both are much much harder in my environment with a pure closed source solution - and it is getting harder."
The issue really is powerlessness, not just against the supplier, but against events beyond the control of the supplier. Hypercard showed one form of this very clearly. You can get orphaned as a user, no matter how much goodwill and committment the supplier has. The problem is that the number of attractive open source alternatives of which this is not true is multiplying all the time. It may be very hard to make money by open sourcing your bread and butter, but it also may be very hard to get your product to the scale it needs to be and can be, while keeping it closed, so its not risk free either way. If you were consulting to Rev, you'd say this was one that had to be looked at very carefully. But my goodness, it would be a bet the company kind of decision. Good luck, if you are thinking about it. Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
