Poll: Should .org have a section for paid add-ons?

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The problem is, if it's allowed to plug commercial scripts here, more and more people will be inclined to release free hacks merely to plug their paid hacks and not for the reason of actually releasing something to help the community.

More and more hacks are turning into LITE versions with stripped down features to get people to purchase PRO versions.

Then there's vBSEO who used this forum and used the members of this forum to polish their commercial script. Where's the lite version? lol, it'll never happen. The only 'free' hacks they've released is to gain exposure for their commercial script.

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

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.