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(06-14-2010 05:41 PM)Harry Wrote:  BTW.. I never understood that argument some make. I suspect there is many sites without any income period and thus dont have the money for such a thing. Now if they had the ability to make some money then a greater chance they may buy something else. Catch my drift?  If i was a plugin author trying to make money THIS is one that would be free. I would be pushing it hard too. That way it increases my odd's of more sites having the means to buy my paid stuff. Some are really not to bright when it comes to this stuff.

I think that's a bit of a quirky way to think of things.
For one, most (legitimate - not some stupid 13 year old thinking "zomg I can earn moniezzz!") admins should be able to cover the cost of hosting if they plan to actually accept payments for things.  The subscriptions to paid sites are really cheap compared to the cost of hosting.

Of course, there probably are situations where someone tries to start up something with no monetary capital on free hosting, and actually intend to purchase modifications if they had the money (or unwilling to send funds to PayPal), but I think this is rather a small minority.