Assume you have an idea for a project. There are commercial solutions as well as open source solutions to the problem, but neither fully solve the problem with all of the features that you would write.

1. Do you implement a comercial solution and make requests to the developer for the additional features?
2. Do you implement the open source solution and make requests to the developer for additional features?
3. Do you use the open source as a template for what your *new* program will be, possibly loosing code-reuse?
4. Add suplemental code to the open source solution?
5. Say bleep it, and write an entirely new back end with the featurs you want (and take at about 40 hours(+) of straight coding to do it?)

In an ideal world, what do you choose and why?

Zak

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