Your argument works at small scales. My company is working with a vendor who quoted us $10mil for an e-commerce solution. Our execs are now toying with the idea of upgrading our existing solution with a few in-house additions, which might total $2-3mil over a few years. When you scale up, sometimes in house is the only option.
You can extend closed source third party system for just $1m? What you will do when authors of system will just say "No" to your proposal to change/fix/revert something in their system, which is essential for your plugin to work?
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Your argument works at small scales. My company is working with a vendor who quoted us $10mil for an e-commerce solution. Our execs are now toying with the idea of upgrading our existing solution with a few in-house additions, which might total $2-3mil over a few years. When you scale up, sometimes in house is the only option.
Wow I’d love to know what the e-commerce solution is for. And happy to build it for $1m.
You can extend closed source third party system for just $1m? What you will do when authors of system will just say "No" to your proposal to change/fix/revert something in their system, which is essential for your plugin to work?