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I think this idea is going to encourage many folks that don't have the time or perhaps talent to try and make a quick buck off vBulletin customers.

If you can't get a paid biz going from your exposure to the community helping, teaching and releasing code to prove yourself, you probably are not ready to be a professional. Having a site you can just join, and almost seem endorsed by, will not make the releasers coders and/or supporters. In fact trying to maintain that level of quality in such a site would be impossible at best IMO.

This place aint going nowhere, it's here to stay you can be sure.