[slinky]

Best of luck making this happen. I don't want to burst anyone's bubble but who "owns" the code of this "donationware" product? Does VB have the right to take the code and then modify it and sell it? Does anyone who "donates" to the product get a share of ownership?

This is all very nice in theory but it is a total mess on the business end. And if you guys want to start building add-ons like this in a vacuum when IB hasn't given you a road map of what it's doing, get ready for potentially huge frustration. What if their "add-on" products compete with this? What about support?

I thought about all these things and realized I was better off not blowing more than the few thousand dollars I did on my own custom add-ons since anything I'm doing is competing with what IB does in the dark and will be unsupported.

I have zero doubt Alfa1 has great intentions. Truth is that the way things are, this will be stop-gap at best. Even the few major add-on developers here are now creating add-ons for XenForo and IPB. Without a road map, anything done here may be duplicative and short lived. And most important, somebody or someone has to own all of the code. If Alfa1 does, then I suggest he find a better way to fund the product than $300 from this guy and $50 from that guy, each of whom will potentially have equal rights to the add-on.