[sabret00the]

if it's honest with everyone i did infact see alot of attacking in this thread, however i also understand that this issue is close to everyones hearts, however whether MPDev released hacks that were related to a paid product other than that of vBulletin are irrelevant, that's getting onto the mentality that you'll only pink diamonds.

in all fairness i read the most valid point in, "would you rather pay $50 an hour or $50 outright due to buying a mod instead of hiring a specialist" that is the problem with service requests, people over-charge and paid mods would reduce that, but at the same time, i really can't see the introduction of paid mods on vb.org not affecting the current releases, vb.org is growing in momentum once more and although we may disagree on some stuff, paid mods/service requests have a role to play in the world of webmastering as lets be honest, running a forum is about being a webmaster, and i'm sorry to piss anyone off but no one releases everything they make.

i would like to have jelsoft set up something so that prices are kept as low as possible, mods cannot turn into products and most importantly to advertise a paid mod you had to a/give a percentage back to jelsoft and b/release X ammount of free mods. but that's my opinion.

to me i love free mods and i love paid ones, i've requested a few paid mods and asked for them to released free, and i've wanted a few kept to myself, i mean look how long i've worked on my confessions script, i'm sure some people think i'm just being selfish but the truth is, i just aint finished it yet despite having a working version, i think villianising paid mods is a bad idea, but without the quality control, price control and so on so forth, promoting it is even worse, theirs very few people who would deserve to have a paid mod released here and the only one that springs to mind is NTLDR and i know i seem like i'm forever mentioning him, but he releases good work and supports it immensely, we seriously need more people here like him and until that's the general attitude before we start trying to introduce new stuff, lets get the existing stuff upto that bench mark.