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Originally posted by MrLister
Hollenthon: Heh if vB was even $400 I'd still buy all the licenses i have.  It's the best "board" out there, not a portal or a site.
Idea sare made to share but how is it sharing if the original coder never allowed it?
He's the originator. It's not called sharing if you go to the site and duplicate it. Guess how much $ those great ideas you mentioned went to the originator. Do you think he would have shared it and spent all that time so he can have somebody else give out TVs for free?
In regards to the child, I understand what you are saying, and i agree with you but at least get the concensus of the original programmer before duplicating his hack. Imagine the frown on his face when one thousand other websites have the same features he worked so extremly hard for. When I was that I age I would have been happy just owning a vB or running any kind of website, so he should as is have a huge smile on his face. Or he could ask the programmer politely for a copy.
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If the thing have a reasonable price I have no problem to reward the inventor buy buying the thing. But 300$US, when you live in Canada it represent near 500$
I work in the pharmaceutical business and it's the same problem. Can we allow small company to copy medication who take several years and million to develop ? But in the other hand can we tolerate the outrageous overprice of the new medication ?
Great idea must be share at a reasonable price !
It's all about balance !
07-07-2002, 11:57 PM
Hybrid Mode
