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Originally Posted by mortenb
I don't know about you guys, but I would not be comfortable using an open source program for my affiliate business. Within 3 days some russian hacker kid will have found a security hole and I would be out of business. Another problem would be that support for the software would not be available. Affiliate program software is such a big part of how we do things that I would never be without support.
I would not work with anyone if I found out they based their entire operation on some unsupported piece of software.
Don't get me wrong. I'm pro open source.. But for the right things. This is not one of them.
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by your logic linux should be a hell of a lot less secure than windows but there are more security holes in windows than in linux.
Not only that but security holes get fixed faster because if you suddenly start to see a problem with your software you can have one of your developers fix the problem right away, instead of just reporting it to the company and waiting until their developers can get around to fixing the problem.
I am sure there will some people who will look at the open source affiliate program as a cheap way to start a program, but any company that who would be willing to pay 20- 35 K for a good affiliate program software would also be willing to spend like 5-10K haveing a qualified program review the source code of the application and make sure there are no bugs that could be exploited.
The key point is with an open source application people could write custom modules that will allow those affiliate to gain access to additional source of services.