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Old 11-18-2009, 01:52 PM
Chili Chili is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Mark View Post
So I'll bring up some questions that I've been wondering about for a while in regard to site owners.

We all use add-ons from vB.org.

1) Why is it that authors abandon their mods?
2) Since our sites become dependent on these mods is there anything that can be done to either keep the authors engaged or provide a means to have the code live on short of having to maintain it ourselves?

Mark
We wish..


I think the main reason they abandon them is that they are free, so they have no obligation or motivation to maintain them. Unfortunately thats the way it goes.. unless "DTO" decides to re-release all of them for a small fee to have them continuously maintained.
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