Re: OpenSource vs. Commercial
- From: "Danijel Tkalcec \(RealThinClient\)" <dtkalcec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:35:57 +0200
There is some point in time when there are virtualy no users of a product,
since the product is new. If everyone is waiting for someone else to start
using a product, then it would probably never come to the point where it has
a lot of users.
OpenSource products have a better chance to get more users faster, since
people don't have to pay to use it. I'd also have to say (judging from my
point of view) that a lot of small companies have to turn every buck twice,
just to survive, so that a lot of them will first ask about the price (Open
Source can't be beaten) and check the product quality later.
But then again, a commercial product which generates profit for the author
(or copyright owner) is more likely to survive than an Open Source product
which doesn't have someone dedicated to keeping the product alive. And any
product which doesn't give enough in return to those spending time on it,
will eventualy end as Open Source (which will, at some point in time, also
come to a halt) or simply be abandoned and die. There are a lot of Open
Source products today, which started as commercial products but didn't pay
for the time invested, forcing developers to give up and find another way to
earn money for living.
SourceForge is full of unfinished projects and abandoned ideas.
--
Danijel Tkalcec
RealThinClient Components
http://www.realthinclient.com
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