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another good benefit of clones like this, is that it'll get Fog Creek to lower their prices for Stack Exchange.
by vaksel 17y ago
another good benefit of clones like this, is that it'll get Fog Creek to lower their prices for Stack Exchange.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agothat would be a mistake. does bugzilla / track / anything else lower the cost of FogBugz? Make a premium product, charge a premium -- it a way to run a small software shop that seems to work for the people involved.
- papachito 17y agoWhat make you think we can't provide a premium product? We had many users telling us they actually liked Shapado better than StackExchange, and not only for the price, I mean feature wise.
- stingraycharles 17y agoPerception is also a factor: if you charge a premium price, people will assume you are the premium product.
- davidw 17y agoIf this is "good enough" for a portion of the people who would have used Stack Exchange, that means SE either has to be "more premium" to differentiate itself, lower their prices, or be satisfied with a smaller market share. And yes, having Bugzilla, Redmine and company out there does lower the cost of FogBugz. It's called "competition".