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Don't like it, use commercial software or hire a consultant to customize your open source solution. Either that or you're a hobbyist in it for love and fun and
by biohacker42 18y ago
Don't like it, use commercial software or hire a consultant to customize your open source solution.
Either that or you're a hobbyist in it for love and fun and you want to try doing it yourself.
What's being suggested here? Don't pay but then do pay? Atwood is so confused.
- jacoblyles 18y ago>"What's being suggested here? Don't pay but then do pay?" Pay but give the source back to the community. I think it's brilliant.
- asdlfj2sd 18y agoIt's also known as the GPL.
- TJensen 18y agoIsn't what he is proposing essentially a service to find a consultant to customize the solution? Seems reasonable to me.
- biohacker42 18y agoSomething like that, but then again that's a well established practice. It has been a valid business strategy for years.
- TJensen 18y agoI agree. The only (remotely) interesting thing Atwood said was "wouldn't it be nice if there was a service that would hook up the consultant with the customer?" However, it would probably be little more than the dozen "find a third-world-or-starving-student-coder" sites that already exist. It would just be branded differently.