How Can It Be Free?

It doesn't cost anything to download and use Drupal from drupal.org. How can something this powerful be free?

Over the years, web developers have needed the same functionality over and over again. Why do I need to develop a login yet again? These programmers started sharing their code and creating a code base that everyone used and everyone contributed to. This community grew and became more formalized, becoming the Drupal project.

Still, the core Drupal project and all the contributed modules from the community remained free. Can you really take free software seriously? Is it really ready for prime time. Take a look at “What can Drupal do?” and some reference sites at “Who uses Drupal?”.

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