[cheat-master30]

Originally Posted by Inferno Tech

@Deezelpope - sorry for the generalisation, I realise, and appreciate, that not all none coders are like that. The point i was trying to make is that the %age of non coders to coders who act in this way is much greater.

@others

Giving out free code is admirable, sure, but it comes down to this.

Would you rather talented coders released lite versions here on vb.org, with full versions for sale, or that they didnt release anything at all?

The way people in the community react to lite and pro means that coders are getting the latter impression, and with other successful forum systems there ready to be coded for, it's a dangerous game. The community is destroying itself, by attacking itself. It's driving people away for no reason, and even when it's NOT doing that, it's not giving them much incentive to stick around either. Go look at any mod thread, the number of complaining or request posts, worded rudely usually, will outnumber the posts of people expressing gratitude 9 times out of 10.

Oh and just a little RE: to the stolen comment - if products are paid for, they can be properly protected. We have a product out, which has been out for quite a while now, and hasnt been cracked thanks to some protection measures, including encoding.

Premium mods definetely *can* be protected.

Firstly, I really have no comment on the first part. As for the part about the happiness expressed in the topic... as I said, the happy users don't generally reply/interact with others as much. For example, there are millions of vBulletin forums. Only a minority use the official site or this one.. and far less complain.


As for being properly protected... anything can be cracked. Just no one has used the time and resources to do so, simply because many such encoded products are not the mainstream, widely used products by others. And for one, you cannot protect the front end. HTML, CSS, XML and Javascript are NOT protectable in any way because they need to be understood by the browser to be parsed. That leaves the PHP core, which could be copied by an experienced coder... or possibly in future cracked. But less of that, as I am not one to discuss things which even show piracy.