[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Vaira

You have missed the point. You have included the importer which reads abe1's tables into your paid version with the intention to make more profit. You know that abe1 has canceled support and that many of us are using his hack already.
To get paid for own work is out of question. Compared to your free version it is almost no effort to write a script that reads tables. Almost no effort to have most profit. Profit made because of the fact that we are using abe1's tables already.

If I am wrong than just provide the importer at your free version as well.
Anything else is pointless arguing to me.
If you would provide the importer at the free version as well, your profit will decrease. I know that and you know that and hence it is available at your paid version only

I'm not sure i understand your argument - if we supply it for free, we will make less money, therefore we SHOULD supply it for free?

That doesn't really compute to me. Would you work for free because you deserve to be paid less for your work? I don't think you would.

We are a business, of COURSE we are trying to make a profit - without doing that we would go out of business, which would mean no more mods (Lite OR Pro).

I'm not sure what it is exactly that makes you feel you are entitled to using our work for free. Do you also go and demand free software/features from Internet Brands? How about Microsoft?

Can you give me one reason why we should give you what you want for free? What have you ever done for us? What free labour have you provided to us? Why haven't you coded your own thanks mod and given it to us for free? Please give me on single reason as to why you are entitled to our work ANY of it, regardless of how big or small it is, for free.

To be honest it is things like this which drive coders away from vB.org - people who feel they should get products and features for free because they have some sort of entitlement or right. I wouldn't be surprised if people feeling entitled is what drove Abe away either.

You are getting something for FREE. Take a second and let that sink it. It is free and you even have the option of not using it. How exactly does this make us the bad guys? Even though we have a better pro version, we are still offering versions of our mods for FREE.

Are you suggesting it would be better if we didn't give anyone anything for free? Thats fine - Don't download our stuff, that solves your problem instantly.

Honestly, this attitude of "you gave us something for free, now give us more features for free or you're evil" is pretty immature and offensive.

Why not go learn to code and make your own mods and release those for free? Is it because you don't have the time to do that - because you have to spend time working to make money perhaps?

In that case i level your own criticism at yourself - stop spending your time making money and start creating free stuff for me.

Hopefully you see how ridiculous that argument is.

Iain