Comment Re:PHB gets it (Score 1) 393
In my country, we have a saying: "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" In this case, the milk is open source software and the cow is the developer.
*Ideally* open-source software is the (using your terminology)"milk". In reality near all open-source projects are not as "user-friendly" and clear as you think. Actually open-source project is not the milk, it's "free and open-source cow". And if you want some milk you have to feed and milk this cow by yourself. (btw: you can even improve and fork the cow, but I don't think you have enough knowledge and time to do it). So, anyway you need some guy that would milk, feed and improve your cow as you wish. And this guy has his cost.
*Ideally* open-source software is the (using your terminology)"milk". In reality near all open-source projects are not as "user-friendly" and clear as you think. Actually open-source project is not the milk, it's "free and open-source cow". And if you want some milk you have to feed and milk this cow by yourself. (btw: you can even improve and fork the cow, but I don't think you have enough knowledge and time to do it). So, anyway you need some guy that would milk, feed and improve your cow as you wish. And this guy has his cost.
