When open source goes bad...

[slegge at govliquidation.com]

DEMO DEMO DEMO DEMO DEMO DEMO DEMO

When on a tight budget ALWAYS demo everything first. It's easier to 
justify your hourly rate rather than the app. Especially when it's your 
name/ass on the line, I recommend you ALWAYS insist on not giving ANY 
billable information before you demo anything. One good way out of that is 
to say you are non-disclosured to not give out even the slightest 
information about who you are or who you are working for. If they are a 
viable business they will be aware of the fact many companies dont want 
people to know who uses what products. If I sold software I would want to 
showoff how wonderful and featurefull my product was not keep it closed up 
and hidden. As for open source gone wrong look @ apps like ARCserve how 
many possible ways can you package tar and gzip??? I swear Computer 
Associates sells sooo much rebadged opensource I don't know if they know 
how their own product works anymore. I really enjoy calling places who ask 
for a $50 incident fee when ITS THEIR FAULT!!! </rant>




-Scott




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On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 18:24 -0700, JD Austin wrote:
> I have a client that wants to build a large database application on a 
> shoestring budget so I thought I could give Rekall a try
> since I heard about it from the teacher in the access class I took last 
> year. 
> Last month I thought I'd give back to the open source community by 
> buying one of the commercially available products.
> Sounds good right?
> In this case it went horribly wrong.
> 
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oh an by the way, sorry about your getting took. I think we all have
been took on software because bought software never quite gives us what
we want for what we think it is worth. Basically, most everything I
bought in the 80's was worthless.

Craig


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