Originally Posted by Lassitor

The payoff with "free" or Open Source is with the customization that comes at a stiff price tag. However, this has not always worked well since there is this sort of attitude out there that once something is free then everything related to that product should be free as well. It is also my experience that when someone is insisting to develop with a Open Source system and free software that they have no money to begin with to spend on development.