[consulting] Costs of forking

[John Handelaar]

Laura Scott wrote:
> 
> Here at the lower end of the food chain I've run into
>> a bunch of people who hear all this and assume therefore
>> that the site builder needs to do less work than she
>> would building from scratch.  And therefore that this
>> should be costing them less money, always, in all cases.
>>
>> Suck.
> 
> The difference is that they don't have to pay licensing on the code. 
> They own the code. And their site will not turn into a pumpkin in 2 
> years or whatever. That's the huge difference in cost, especially over time.

Absolutely.

I'm merely pointing out that there's a perceived
weakness in presentation for us with a certain type
of client - Ber's 'one shot and no foresight' crowd,
mostly.

Of course there's an argument to be made that you
don't *want* that sort of client anyway :)


jh