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Originally Posted by gideongallery
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.
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Reasons why I don't agree that open source is all that great, and that some of you poster's remarks are lame in here:
1. WINDOWS has more copies distributed than Linux
2. ASP.NET is used for business applications more than PHP
3. Microsoft Office is used for documents more than OpenOffice
4. SourceForges project count is up to 95,910, with the vast majority of them unfinished.
This industry is not cromprised of a fan-based ezine sites; it is comprised of businessmen who are treating this as a business to claim their share of the billion-dollar pie. Any company who would pay 20-35K for a good affiliate program wouldn't necessarily pay 5-10K for an addon to or reworking of an open source system. They want exactly what they're paying for. Otherwise, they'd be outsourcing to India.
If there were dozens of free softwares out there, the internet would get even more congested with *hopeless* newbs (not to be confused with people that can actually make it into the biz), which give this industry a bad rep -- it's not a business for them, they're willing to do stupid shit that makes the industry look bad. This is a business for me. Software development is what I do for a living. You come in here and offer a program for free, that I (and any other programmer on here) would offer for tens of thousands of dollars: expect to get flamed and harassed by the men and women who work hard behind the scenes to bring the end-PAYING-user some eye candy.