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Hmm Im a contributing member on PhPportals site (under a different name tho) 2.01 is stable, Ive installed on many sites for many people with only minor problems that were related to server conf or the way VB was set up on that particuler server.

Portal Lite apart from one minor problem I had, has also been stable on my server, considering this is only pre-release I think this is testement to the way its been created and debugged by the people who wish to see it succeed.

VBportal started out as one mans hobby (wajones), he has put in thousands of man hours creating a frontend for VB which he has willingly shared with countless people, many of those people have willingly donated and helped with the debugging and also contributing to the code, I dont think asking for donations is unreasonable considering the man hours and the cost of running the VBportl site which he has had to bear over the many months its has taken to get portal where it is today, remember, there's lots of commercial sites using the portal for there own gain, so its not unreasonable for wajones to ask for a little to cover his time or his costs.

Just remember, portal has been written mainly by 1 individual, how many thousands of people work at anyone time on MS code?
The only people dangling carrots are the big commercial software houses, wajones will be lucky to cover his time or material outlays.