[Brad]

We both now that vbgallery case was totally different. vBGallery was killing photopost sales thats why they forced Brian to give up on the script. The background story may be different but the main idea on photopost was surely killing vbgallery.

The events around it begin transfered were not the same but the fact that it was handed over to another service provider is exactly the same thing that is going to happen with all of The Geek's products.

I'm saying that they can be killed off by whomever gets the rights to them, nothing more.

However on the other hand Gars , Gal , Gaz have no competition product in the market . Gars is probably one of the best 2 top selling product as vBulletin addons and if Sam will decide to sell it he'll make sure the new owner will be a company who already provides good support and has quality products. So your theory may have a 1% chance but unfortunately mine has 50% of chance.

My theory has just as much chance of happening as yours, don't make up stats and pretend they're real.

I'm sure he'll pass is off to someone he trusts but even in that case unexpected things can happen. If these scripts are really that popular then there is no doubt many new customers are going to be looking for support, resources, and answers to general questions.

Can the new service provider handle all of that? Do they have enough people around to develop and support all of these new modifications? Are these scripts going to bring in enough profit to warrent doing all of this work?

Your main issue seems to be that if these modifications were released for free they would "be hacked into a jumble of crap and not be supported". Have you even considered just hiring someone for one-on-one support when you need it? That is always an option even in the modification begin supported is free. As for the code "going to crap", sure it can happen but if everyone is free to work on it everyone is free to fix things up when needed. Just look at all the forked projects in the open source community!

On the subject of vB.org; It's a boring subject so I'll pass. There are plenty of places where people enjoy reading the same old rants about vB.org though. I'm sure you know where to find them by now.