Proprietary CMS solutions are costly because they only let the "owner" to install the script once.
Now, in real life, it doesn't work that way.
Most of the time, the script is tested on a production server, then brought online for a soft-test on a secondary domain and then, announced and launched on the main domain. This straightforward process could be problematic, in a licensed script context.
Open source is just so much more natural.
An open sourced script can be deployed as often as necessary and that's just wonderful. Not that everybody needs that but knowing that it's possible make a world of a difference.
Then, in the open source community, when you like a script, you just send PayPal donations. It's that simple. You can contribute new features too but money, in my experience, has always been very much appreciated.
I do the math this way. I used to spend around 5k$ on software, a few years back. I scaled that down to 2k$ so now, I spend between 2k$ and 3k$ a year on donations to open source scripts (in PHP and MySQL, my areas of interest). It's not a fortune but I'm being well served by these scripts and I intend for others to share part of my success.
Licensing fees
Proprietary CMS solutions are costly because they only let the "owner" to install the script once.
Now, in real life, it doesn't work that way.
Most of the time, the script is tested on a production server, then brought online for a soft-test on a secondary domain and then, announced and launched on the main domain. This straightforward process could be problematic, in a licensed script context.
Open source is just so much more natural.
An open sourced script can be deployed as often as necessary and that's just wonderful. Not that everybody needs that but knowing that it's possible make a world of a difference.
Then, in the open source community, when you like a script, you just send PayPal donations. It's that simple. You can contribute new features too but money, in my experience, has always been very much appreciated.
I do the math this way. I used to spend around 5k$ on software, a few years back. I scaled that down to 2k$ so now, I spend between 2k$ and 3k$ a year on donations to open source scripts (in PHP and MySQL, my areas of interest). It's not a fortune but I'm being well served by these scripts and I intend for others to share part of my success.
Licenses feel like a prison.
And I believe I'm not the only one...