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Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Now what would happen if any coder can easily release their work as a paid hack, and can also easily take care of things like advertising by posting here at vb.org? Would they still release their 'small' (no disrespect intended, i made a lot of small things myself) hacks for free? Or would they think, hey i can ask $5 for this one, hmm this is bigger, well what the heck, let's ask 25 for this? Would we still have a community that mostly has free hacks?

I know some coders would always be relesing most of their work for free, but what percentage would that be?

Just some things to think about.

A coder that would charge 5 dollars for a hack wouldn't charge, but how good is the hack (no disrespect to small hacks). What I am saying is, major hacks such as the Arcade, the CMS could become paid hacks because the authors know they would be able to make some money off of there code.

On the other side. Coders should be able to charge for there work, as they do not owe anything to anyone here. However letting hackers use vB.org as a way to advertise only makes it more appeasing to release it paid hacks since they would have a way to advertise.