Re: Website CMS questions

> So the incentive to make the product easy to use and require 
> as little support as is possible is built-in. Can you say the 
> same thing for a model based on OpenSource (i.e. no licensing 
> costs)? I would be most interested in hearing about it! (really!)

Of course you can. Like I said, this can be spun in any direction.

For the OS spin:

OS software is a product of developers. Developers who spend time
working on the product not for monetary gain, but for pride. They take
pride in their craft and strive to produce good, solid, usable products
not just to please any specific customer, but to please themselves.

Of course, the more practical spin is the exact same one you used:

OS developers don't want to spend time supporting their product anymore
than commercial vendors do. As such, they want to write a good, solid
application to reduce the amount of time supporting end users.

> > In the end, make a good product. That's all that matters. 
> 
> But that statement ignores the underlying problem: does the 
> model promote making a "good product".

I'm not hear to argue whether or not OS is a viable business model. It
clearly is. Just as commercial software sales appears to be a viable
business model. To write one or the other off is just silly.

> Indeed... and yet your initial comment was:
>  > The only difference between OS and Commercial CMS products 
> is that you  > pay more for one up front. ;o)

Smilie = typically meant to imply a statement was said partially in
jest/toungue in cheek/not meant to instigate an all out debate. (though
the debate is enjoyable and seems to be fairly civil thus far... ;o)

-Darrel