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Once CEO asked me: "why are you spending months of your valuable time to create a tool to solve a thing, instead paying $10/month?" "I know developers never pa
by ianberdin 3y ago
Once CEO asked me: "why are you spending months of your valuable time to create a tool to solve a thing, instead paying $10/month?"
"I know developers never pay, but why?"
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoIt's not the money, it's the control you relinquish in the process. The potential costs of the risks involved are much, much greater than $10/month.
- jampekka 3y agoThis. Proprietary software tends to be very inflexible, often low quality, and difficult to integrate. Fighting with these often causes more work than just doing from scratch or adapting open source code.
- GraemeMeyer 3y agoIn my case it’s because companies would rather waste 6 months of person-hours than get out the credit card
- sdeframond 3y agoPeople who spend months of their time building open source represent a fraction of developers who "never pay". Why pay when there is a free, open and, if need arises, hackable alternatives ? Developers do pay when there is value is. See how profitable cloud hosting is!
- antifa 3y agoFor a lot of people, it's "Why pay $10/ month for something marginally more useful than a folder of bash files?"