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tvepsorg wrote:
There are two things at hand here that you people have to consider...
If your making a module for the simple reason of sharing it with the community, then that's great, but don't "expect" people to donate or feel that you "should" be "entitled" to get paid to recover your costs. Making modules for an open source community is not a smart "business" move.
So I feel that there are 2 situations that you should release a module to the community.
1. You have the means and don't mind eating the cost for development.
2. You are going to spend the money on development for your own business anyways, why not contribute to the community that has helped you out at the same time.
Of course that's just my 2 cents.
I could NOT agree more, well said!
This whole new attitude of shoving their costs down our throats makes me fairly ill to be honest. No one in the XOOPS community held a gun to their head to have a module developed. Why not be a man (or woman) and suck up the cost for the greater good of the community?
I run a communuty/news site. I eat the cost in the form of the ISP bill, hardware and my time every month. I do it because I beleive in the project/goal of the site. I wish more people here felt the same way.
Charity is a good thing.
