On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:28 PM, <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info<ashok%2Bskunkworks@parliaments.info>
wrote:
Ban freeware and reinvent the wheel when it already exists ? are you
serious or joking or inebriated ?
@Ashok, hehehe.... come'on lets not be too lazy, take the back seat and justify " reinvent the wheel " notion. Building on apache and Mysql etc is not freeware. Freeware is about ready made solutions that are being sold to end users, under the pretext of progamming and developers. Infact, I'd say such actions are fraudulent. I hope you saw the kisstv site and the template used ( the thread was raised on this list )...what a scam if the site owners called themselves ati web developers/coders! If I was to be a judge on a development competition, though the novice that I am, I'd give 99% to Dennis Kioko for his recent css templates for originality and effort while others who may have flash but borrowed things would likely not even qualify. Freeware has a serious domino's effect, we should be willing to divert it. Client is king, so I also think maybe driving the force of quick fixes and shortcuts. Are clients the ones responsible for the mess? Me amatuer thots on a subject that am still learning... :-)