| > and the site is intentionally vague as to what is free It's not? It says the CMS is free and open-source and they have prices listed for the paid services they provide. > and paint themselves as saviors and good people for being open source while overcharging for a product to the degree that the site misrepresents itself, and I believe that they both are true. Simply saying that something is open-source is you painting yourself as a "savior"? > And if IA did provide an easy way to do that, the site linked would be an even worse deal. Obviously, if they did provide it then there would be no reason at all to pay. > Furthermore, you can download an entire site using your web browser ‘Save page as’ -> ‘web page, complete’ dialog in conjunction with the undocumented trick: No, not an entire site, just the current HTML document and the accompanying files for it (e.g. scripts, images, etc.) If you want to sit for hours manually doing that for thousands of pages then feel free. |
> It's not? It says the CMS is free and open-source and they have prices listed for the paid services they provide.
You brought up the CMS. I didn’t. I don’t have any point to defend regarding it. ‘bagpuss was wrong about what they said about the site, and I replied to that.
> Simply saying that something is open-source is you painting yourself as a "savior"?
It’s called marketing.
Are you unfamiliar with what scammy means? The site feels scammy to me. So I said so. I don’t think you can demonstrate that I don’t believe it’s scammy, and you haven’t convinced me either.
> Obviously, if they did provide it then there would be no reason at all to pay.
I don’t have any reason to pay either. ‘bagpuss can defend the scammy site, but I won’t so I agree there’s no reason to pay, for different reasons.
> No, not an entire site, just the current HTML document and the accompanying files for it (e.g. scripts, images, etc.) If you want to sit for hours manually doing that for thousands of pages then feel free.
I have no reason to believe a scammy site will do any better than that either. You haven’t demonstrated that the site even works, and their marketing doesn’t inspire confidence.
As I didn’t introduce the site, I’m not beholden to supporting it or not. Take ‘bagpuss to task if anyone.
I don’t think you know what you’re even arguing about or for because none of your arguments or claims even go anywhere, they all revolve around this scammy site that you didn’t even bring up. Nothing about your argument makes sense.
That you haven’t made any effort to correct ‘bagpuss by replying to them directly is curious.