[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by Christine

And the bottom line comes out.

Some of us code and support the community because we want to give back. Others are in it for other reasons.

Sorry, Tim -- but the whole thought of using someone else's bandwidth and disk space to freely promote your for-profit enterprise just doesn't mesh.

Okay listen here.

I spend over 20 hours a week helping new coders learn what there doing here on vb.org via msn and aim.

I spend at least 30 hours a week coding on my hacks.

I spend another 10+ hours supporting my hacks and others.

I give a hell of alot back to the community.

Being able to sell the few mods that I do sell. Helps me support my free hacks better. Would you rather I not release and free hacks becuase people resent me for releasing pay hacks.

I guess my time spent helping users above and beyond what most expect out of a coder is stupid then huh. Becuase oh boy I can talk about what im planning hack wise becuase its gonna be pay wow that just means less feedback on it.

Less features for others to use.

I am working on comercial grade products here that will be bigger then vbulletin itself.

I am sorry if you feel they should be released free but there is no way in hell a product that im putting that much time into thats designed to make people money will be released for free.

I mean the statement you quoted was intended for this context as follows.

Say I have a nice hack and im selling it for 10-15 bucks. Yet I have to pay vb 5-10 bucks or what ever they charge then basicly im paying vb to sell the hack then. Thats why the price would have to change.

Lets see 10 - 10 = 0. That math doesnt work for me im sorry.