[wp-hackers] Premium plugin protection

[Andy Charrington-Wilden]

Thanks for that. So what is your actual opinion on premium plugins and their implementation?

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On 12 Dec 2010, at 01:10, Michael Torbert <mrtorbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> *What is your opinion on things like shopp? You can't deny they provide an
> excellent product and while for the most part it is free you will still have
> to pay for certain (very useful) features. Are they wrong?*
> *
> *
> I never mentioned Shopp's model. (BTW it isn't free.) I address the issue of
> locking away functionality on a server just to be able to charge for it.
> *
> What is your opinion on charging clients for development then? *
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> I'm not sure why you think I'd be opposed to this.
> *
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> *Surely charging for a plugin/service is simply paying back the initial
> investment of time that was put in to it? *
> *
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> No, when someone pays for a product, they aren't paying for the initial time
> spent creating it, they're paying for the value of the product. Either way,
> this isn't relevant.
> *
> *
> *Is it not the same thing? Surely you would not give code away due it being
> for an open source platform?*
> *
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> *It's not the same. Again, I never said anything about that model. Let's not
> straw man please.
> 
> I'm interested in knowing the general consensus on premium plugins. It
> doesn't seem to be something that's discussed much and there certainly isn't
> a lot online about premium plugin development.*
> *
> *
> This has been discussed ad nauseum.
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