50$ for major features... many clients of me have paid a lot more only to have exclusive tools, or simply a better support on features they wanted to be enhanced from the board... and they are happy because they had what they requested and more (i always give unlimited support on my job)...
and yes, Jelsoft would gain a lot if they permit to have commercial tools released here or there, because i've had many clients that bought vBulletin just because i was able to build them special tools... they would not have bought vB if i would not have done the job... even if they paid twice the price of vB for the jobs done...
and no, not everyone would have to face the price when asking for a tool... don't you know reverse auction ?!
someone ask for a job to be done, and the client select the best price offered in the lot of coders answering the auction. if i find a cool request that i can do for free, i will be happy to make it free and answer the auction with a free tool... the code would be released and i would be more popular because i release good tools that answer the requests...
that's the way to build a reputation... not only because of the count of releases, but also count of the GOOD releases... a tool like Trader Rating can become a real good way to deal with coders... any client/requester can read the trade rating of a coder and evaluate if the guy is a solid, or a cheap hacker...
--nexia
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