> I personally don't even have an account to release it on d.o. :)<br><br>Hmm, that also means you don't have an account to report issues. I sense a larger problem here...<br><br>--<br>Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg<br>
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Fred Jones <<a href="mailto:fredthejonester@gmail.com">fredthejonester@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > On the other hand, you can guarantee nobody else will use or support your<br>
> > code if you never release it.<br>><br>> I personally don't even have an account to release it on d.o. :)<br>><br>> > How do you know this? Seems to me that even the silliest pieces of code<br>
> > we've released have been used by others. You just never know...<br>><br>> Not silly but rather 100% custom. As in unless you have our custom<br>> data fields and our custom status fields, then not only will the code<br>
> not work, it wouldn't even make sense. I at least have modules like<br>> that.<br>><br>> > I think it's worth noting that I'm not accusing anyone on this list of<br>> > selling "crap" or purposefully misleading a client. I'm just stating a very<br>
> > uncontroversial fact that there are many people who do both of these<br>> > purposefully, and many more who do the second with the best of intentions.<br>><br>> Agreed. Thank you for clarifying.<br>><br>
> > Technology costs money to maintain, and even if you don't know precisely how<br>> > much the cost is, you should know that it's there.<br>> ><br>> > As I also stated, we too have legacy clients from when we started using<br>
> > Drupal whose sites we didn't build in the way I'm advocating, and we've<br>> > migrated/fixed/rebuilt many others. My opinions are coming from my own<br>> > experience (both in this real and from my experience as a Network/Systems<br>
> > Admin for a mid-sized university for 8 years), and while it's perfectly fine<br>> > if my experience doesn't track well to others', I haven't read anything here<br>> > that convinces me to discount them.<br>
><br>> Yes, your experience is actually (thus far) very interesting. I was<br>> not aware of these issues before. I now have a much better<br>> understanding.<br>><br>> F<br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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