Open source and commercial “web solutions”

Web agencies promising outstanding web solutions trough our innovative text management system are all nonsense. Very few of these agencies have their own content management system (CMS), and they should all stop pretending otherwise. The product these companies are offering is nothing more than a themed (at best) version of an freely available open source publishing tool.

I dislike this practice. It is fine by me if someone wants to sell their knowledge of implementing an open source tool. That is the way it is supposed to work! But more and more frequently I stumble upon web portal/publishing agencies that are taking all the credit of creating something they are only implementing.

The open source blogging tool WordPress is very often ripped off, renamed, and claimed to be our very own product. I can understand the desire to do so, but it does not make me feel any better about it.

I hope these companies run out of business and disappear very soon. In my eyes, it is much better to claim that a company is an expert in deploying a technology rather than claiming they created the technology. I would rather talk to an expert than an adventurous lonetick any day.

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