[wp-edu] Re: wp-edu Digest, Vol 1, Issue 5

[Velda]

That's a really great analogy... Very helpful indeed. Thank you!

-Velda


Brian Moynihan wrote:
> There is a great metaphor for the phenomenon of the cost of open 
> source projects. While you often hear the "Free as in beer" vs. "Free 
> as in speech" discussion, perhaps the best way to describe the way an 
> educational institution employing a CMS like Wordpress is "Free as in 
> Puppy". In other words, free to get, but a lot of time, energy and 
> resources to keep going. I find it a good, quick way of describing it 
> to people, since it seems to strike a chord.
>
> Hope that's helpful,
> Brian Moynihan
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>        1. Re: Advocacy (Chris Hajer)
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>     Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 02:28:55 -0600
>     From: "Chris Hajer" <chrishajer at gmail.com>
>     Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Advocacy
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>     James,
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>     I understand completely the point you're making.  There is a cost to
>     getting anything up and running and keeping it there, proprietary,
>     closed, open, whatever (operating systems, CMS, desktop apps, etc.)
>     But the fact remains that WordPress IS free to start with, freely
>     available, and there is no ongoing licensing fee.  That's a huge
>     departure from what a lot of municipalities and schools are used to.
>     It is normal for a consultant to come in with a proposal, and right
>     off the top is software licensing..  It's expected, it's normal,
>     it's
>     what the administrators are used to dealing with.  None of that makes
>     it right, but it is one of the things you come up against, oddly
>     enough.
>
>     The other philosophical change for schools is changing from a desktop
>     app publishing mentality to a
>      web-based, modern CMS publishing
>     mentality.  I mentioned previously iWeb from Apple, and I have seen
>     Dreamweaver, HomeSite, Microsoft Front Page and Publisher and probably
>     others, all in use on the desktop.  That's another hurdle.  Once the
>     foot is in the door with a modern CMS like WordPress, we need to
>     change behaviour again.
>
>     I think it's great that we are even having this discussion in the first
>     place.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Chris Hajer
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>     On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:40 PM, James Groom <jimgroom at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > I think the point that WordPress is free isn't exactly true, all
>     > software (whether open source or proprietary) comes at a cost.
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