Good programmers, no matter what the platform or language, cost a lot
of money. This doesn't mean that the most expensive programmer is
necessarily the best one, but it's probably safe to say that someone
who charges $15/hour isn't as good as someone who charges $150/hour.
Also: The more unusual or advanced the platform, the harder it will be
to find people, and the more those people will charge.
Finding good, experienced Zope programmers for $15/hour thus strikes
me as laughably out of touch with reality.
There isn't any reason to think that free software is incompatible
with highly paid software engineers. The "free" refers to what
happens after the software is written, not to the cost of producing
the software itself. There are some open-source projects that run on
good faith and volunteerism alone, but most do not. Who pays the
bills? The folks who realize that programming is hard, and that good
programmers are expensive. (And that bad programmers might seem
cheap, but will cost you so much in maintenance and instruction that
it's not worthwhile.)
Finally, a company that publicly promises to pay programmers under the
table doesn't strike me as one with whom I would want to do business.
(And yes, I contacted Nimrod about working with him on this project
when he originally wrote to linux-il.)
Reuven
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