Re: Website CMS questions

I'm not sure we'll actually have a winner to this debate, since it goes 
back to a time when there was still Star Trek and it was still Good.

-Peter

Austin, Darrel wrote:
>> 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
>
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