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Living With Open Source

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Linux-news.org; By Roger J Webb 		Mail this story
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Milton Friedman the American Economist said “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” and even though Open Source is free to use, alter, and pass on, there’s still a price to pay. To date, I have used two Open Source Content Management Systems (CMSs) to run five on-line communities and paid the price.

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mbaehrlxer ·
this failure has nothing to do with Free and open source software.

show me the non-free system that has 15000 add-on modules and keeps them all working through incompatible API changes.

non-free is not an advantage here.

if you want commercial support, have you looked at the support options available for drupal and joomla? they do exist!

not that API changes are without problems. they are a concern, but with Free and open source software at least i am able to keep maintaining the old version. i have done so before. try that with non-free software.

greetings, eMBee.

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