Some of us code and support the community because we want to give back. Others are in it for other reasons.
Sorry, Tim -- but the whole thought of using someone else's bandwidth and disk space to freely promote your for-profit enterprise just doesn't mesh.
Okay listen here.
I spend over 20 hours a week helping new coders learn what there doing here on vb.org via msn and aim.
I spend at least 30 hours a week coding on my hacks.
I spend another 10+ hours supporting my hacks and others.
I give a hell of alot back to the community.
Being able to sell the few mods that I do sell. Helps me support my free hacks better. Would you rather I not release and free hacks becuase people resent me for releasing pay hacks.
I guess my time spent helping users above and beyond what most expect out of a coder is stupid then huh. Becuase oh boy I can talk about what im planning hack wise becuase its gonna be pay wow that just means less feedback on it.
Less features for others to use.
I am working on comercial grade products here that will be bigger then vbulletin itself.
I am sorry if you feel they should be released free but there is no way in hell a product that im putting that much time into thats designed to make people money will be released for free.
I mean the statement you quoted was intended for this context as follows.
Say I have a nice hack and im selling it for 10-15 bucks. Yet I have to pay vb 5-10 bucks or what ever they charge then basicly im paying vb to sell the hack then. Thats why the price would have to change.
Lets see 10 - 10 = 0. That math doesnt work for me im sorry.
11-09-2005, 01:02 AM
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