[SaintDog]

Well, I would have to disagree on two accounts with you, the first being that Jelsoft is in it for the money, the second would be that phpBB and other boards do not get money (when I know they do).

I will start with Jelsoft, I am not taking up for them just because I bought the product and like it, I am disagreeing with you because if they were really in it for the money they would charge more like UBB and have less. You really have to take into consideration that JS has to pay employees and pay for the server costs (which I know from exp. that servers are not cheap, not good ones anyway). They are also paying people that do not use their product (Comission Juction fees) so there goes more of their money. The next thing that is paid is the DigiBuy fees from each purchase. Lastly from my knowledge (I am sure there is more) they have to pay taxes.

From all of that, I would say they are not making as much as you think from buying the product. Sure they are making money, just not as much as some people think.

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Onto free based boards, sure I would agree that those like XMB are probably not making any money but the larger more known boards such as YaBB, phpBB, ect are making money, you just don't know about it. Take a real close look at things, they have to pay for the servers they run the boards on (I don't see to many boards with so many members run actual on a shared hosting account). They make more than you know about, they just choose to hide it.

I am not trying to stir up arguments, just stating the facts. I believe it may have been FireFly that brought up what I just re-stated about vBulletin before, I could be wrong but I remember hearing that before from another member either here or at vBulletin.com.