[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Well said and accurate, Slave.

You've got to be kidding me.

You guys are total doomsayers "Ive been looking around at other forums cause this will be the end of .org?". Pfft. Look, you two. Get some countrytime and sit on the porch to play some checkers and reminisce about the good ol days and how it just ain't like it used to be. All because someone started asking for donations.* :beard:

Slave, you talk about the coders mindset however you haven't released anything here that I am aware of. To say that people started seeing $$$ with donations when its been stated umpteen times that one or two people ever bother to give made everyone go commercial is just silly. Just because someone charges for their work doesn't mean that they are trying to profit from it. However thats just not good enough for you? They should have to not even cover some costs invovled to make your modifications? They should support the work, do up documentation for people who don't know how to work computers, give up their weekends and Pub time because thats your version of a perfect '.org'?

I know you guys would rather have the ol 'team .org spirit' and believe me - I would to. Heck, if this were the virtual garden of eden with everyone pitching in and working together on projects then you bet your ass I would be there in an instance. Heck, I would most likely close up shop and release all my work here as 'open source' because I wouldn't have to worry about support, future development, documentation, etc... as the community would do it for me! I have 1,000 projects I would love to throw out there in various states and work with others to bring them to fruition however lets accept that you Utopia wont come about because the community doesn't support it. In fact, I think more and more of the community finally want a choice. Why is a choice bad? Why is a choice something to be fearful of? If I want a gallery, I can use the one that the community built for free or buy vBa's or Photoposts or Coppermine. Why is that bad?

After all, if vB creates a solution for its customers that involves commercial scripts, YOU HAVE THE CHOICE to not buy any, read about them and not care one iota about them. However those that do will be happy they can finally get something that some would feel is desperately needed. In other words, we would all have choice whereas alas now... we do not.

Heres an idea: Put an 'ignore commercial hacks' or 'send commercial hacks to Coventry' option. Then you guys wont ever even know about them.

*I was just taking the piss about the Country time bit. I hope its not taken out of context. It just seems that I'm the only one around here who hasn't mentioned that Boofo is an old geezer at some stage in a post so I saw it as a weak attempt to clear that off of my 'things to do before I die' list

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