[Dean C]

Originally Posted by MRGTB

That said, lets say you had some hacks released here and you no longer had the time or the interest to update them anymore. What's wrong with letting another coder step in and carry on updating it for members to use. Remember, where not talking about a person taking over abandoned hacks to "sell" them, where talking about them still being supported as FREE hacks for community members as a whole to use. By another coder, who is quite frankly "is willing to give up his free time up to continue supporting it for you without any gains in doing so, as all download credits goes to the original author". Which would otherwise just become and outdated hack thats no longer compatible with future vBulletin releases (maybe), and end up in the graveyard as trash.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but that's my decision to make, not anyone elses It's also important to remember the benefits of posting modifications here. I released quite a few in my earlier days here, and offered regular support throughout the forums. It served as a gateway for me to get lots of clients. Now, if Joe Bloggs comes along and takes one of my old mods, and releases it with a few fixes, who's to say that he won't get any potential commercial benefit.

At the end of the day you can argue, whine and say what you like about this subject, but peoples work remains copyrighted to them, and no-one else. Nothing you do, vBulletin.org does, can change that