[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by yayvb

I can go either way. I think it would be an incentive for people to spend more time making great hacks that are useful to all of us. On the other hand, I imagine it will be the beginning of the end for free hacks.

Free hacks will never die. Many of us that are working on commercial scripts still release free hacks. I am planning my new talkerbot v3 to be free of charge but have a subscription you can buy to gain access to the aiml sharing directory (mainly becuase of the sheer amt of bandwith it will consume).

The aiml share database will be a collection of custom made aiml files and ones submitted to us from the internet. So it will be like a single distrobution place for aiml files. The hack will have a nice integration into the database on my site if you purchase the small subscription and then you can install stuff in real time and even keep track of which bots know which files.