http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/10/16/south-africa-slis-follow-up-1-michael-stephens-web-20-and-libraries/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else Sun, 20 May 2012 03:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/10/16/south-africa-slis-follow-up-1-michael-stephens-web-20-and-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-2956 David Fiander Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:41:21 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/10/16/south-africa-slis-follow-up-1-michael-stephens-web-20-and-libraries/#comment-2956 "Free as in kittens" is the <i>perfect</i> way to describe open source software!!! The tradeoff between paying a vendor and paying for your own staff is something that I've been talking up a lot recently, and this is the best "sound-bite" way to capture the maintenance costs that I've ever heard! “Free as in kittens” is the perfect way to describe open source software!!! The tradeoff between paying a vendor and paying for your own staff is something that I’ve been talking up a lot recently, and this is the best “sound-bite” way to capture the maintenance costs that I’ve ever heard!

]]> http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/10/16/south-africa-slis-follow-up-1-michael-stephens-web-20-and-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-2955 joshua m. neff Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:17:29 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/10/16/south-africa-slis-follow-up-1-michael-stephens-web-20-and-libraries/#comment-2955 I can't imagine Michael being <i>anyone's</i> mortal enemy. But it would be fun to watch your Crane style go up against his Tiger style in the kung fu fight of the century. I can’t imagine Michael being anyone’s mortal enemy. But it would be fun to watch your Crane style go up against his Tiger style in the kung fu fight of the century.

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