I think the coders have every right in the world to charge if they want to. I mean there's a lot of people trying to use that free hack to make some money for themselves at their own website.
Someone said that the hackers should be giving part of the revenue they make to vbulletin for the advertising their hack gets here.. but on the other hand maybe vbulletin should be paying hackers to make hacks because of the advertising it brings to vbulletin in return.
I for one would never have bought vbulletin had I not seen customized and hacked boards. The 'out of the box' look does absolutely nothing for me. (meaning it doesn't get me excited).
Someone else brought up the fact that there'd be people trying to charge an arm and a leg for their hacks. Its rediculous to see people charging the same price for a hack that I paid for vB in the first place, or even half the price, especially when the hack has 1/100th the functionality. I think we'd still see the high prices a lot, but a smart coder would do something like http://www.tufat.com/
He offers a lot of good scripts for cheap. I wouldn't mind paying $2 to 5$ per hack I've installed (which adds up fast) provided I could test it out and see what I'm getting. Plus he seems to have a great attitude/personality. There's several coders here who I just won't use their hacks no matter how good they are because of their 'holier than thou' attitude towards the simple end user.
on the other hand...
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Originally Posted by Slave
I'd prefer to see the vBulletin team themselves start to release commercial hacks/addons to vB than have to pay money to people who have no track record and could close up shop the day after you've paid your money..
I agree, if I'm going to be paying money I'd rather be buying a hack from the team that made the software in the first place, people that have a more vested interest in it and we know will be around.
11-09-2005, 06:01 PM
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