I always here the saying, "You get what you pay for" as a reason to think that software that's free is somehow not as good as software that costs.
I use Mozilla as a browser and it's the browser by which all others are written. Apache Webserver is free, is that crap too? Proftpd is the standard for ftp servers...oh and free. Unix, which is probably the operating system used on 99% of webservers out there, is free. Is Unix not as good as (or better than) Windows? How many of your sites are powered by free and open software?
I just think it's pretty silly to dismiss something because it's free, that somehow software that costs is "better" than software that's free. Clearly, the examples I've given above prove that notion to be false.
I use Mozilla as a browser and it's the browser by which all others are written. Apache Webserver is free, is that crap too? Proftpd is the standard for ftp servers...oh and free. Unix, which is probably the operating system used on 99% of webservers out there, is free. Is Unix not as good as (or better than) Windows? How many of your sites are powered by free and open software?
I just think it's pretty silly to dismiss something because it's free, that somehow software that costs is "better" than software that's free. Clearly, the examples I've given above prove that notion to be false.
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