Donate back to script developers?

[Leo Ghost]

I've been making a few extra dollars lately having sold off a few of my "censored genre" sites, and so I decided to donate $5 to the MyBB project. Upon discussing this with a friend on msn, I was amazing to hear that he personally doesn't see the need to donate to script authors and such.

However that's not to say that I don't support the things I use when I can. Sure, $5 isn't a lot and alone wouldn't even pay to host their homepage (with the bandwidth it uses...). Now that I know it's a tax write off though, they can expect more from me 😛

So, if you created a forum and started earning loads from ads, would you donate back to the people who developed the script (assuming it's free, not paid)?

 

[Justin]

If I had the money in my Paypal account, I would. There are some really good developers out there that get paid squat. And someone invents a knock off of another script and they get paid. I hate that

 

[XcapeX]

I see the need to and would if I wasn't a kid.

 

[StripesAndFins]

I would If I had the money 🙂

 

[Antarctic]

Nope. Don't have the money for that sort of thing.

 

[Expired Account 2]

OMG... Leo, you pirate? 0.o

:lol:

I donate about everything I can to the makers of open source products and I'll be following in their footsteps soon enough. 🙂

 

[Expired Account]

I would like to, but I'll never have the money to do so.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

I would if I could, and of course, 5$ isn't a lot, but it is something. 🙂

 

[Pixel Pirate]

Sadly, I dont directly donate to the developers them selves. Ive donated $10-15 to mybbcentral and as you know a Percentage of their donations go to mybb. I really dont see the need to donate to someone who made the script free...if they wanted money they should have made it paid.

 

[_20_]

[delete me]

 

[Watch Me Sink]

I've donated about 96+ straight hours of my time providing support. I rarely got thanked, and often the elite god-like deity "Support Staff" mocked me, the worthless peon.

So I said screw that, and stopped supporting it. Never donated any money, because it would have been a waste.

 

[Nebulous]

If the script developers would have wanted to make money, they would charge people to use their scripts. Such as vB and IPB do.

 

[Joe 2]

If my new Mybb forum gets big and I start obtaining a steady income I definitely would donate some back to Mybb. 🙂 Without a second thought.