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Commercial Flash Components?

I was talking to a friend earlier this evening about a component i have developed and during the conversation he mentioned selling the component and any further components commercially for a small fee, which set my brain in motion, thinking about the pro’s and con’s of doing so. On one hand i have always been geared towards open source and providing it, since i started in the flash community, and i can see the benefits of open source not only from a personal standpoint but from a community standpoint - where would be today if we had to pay for everything? there wouldnt be half as many half decent flash developers and community forums, maybe not even as many flash blogs. On the other hand, i can see the benefits of earning $5-10 per go on a, well, from what i forsee to be a very popular and widely used interface element, as a component(one of the only interface elements Macromedia missed in their component sets). Im really stuck on this one, which way should i go? do people think there is a market for commerical components? have you considered going commercial? would you be willing to fork out for some well documented, scalable and very useful code? should i just give it a whirl and make an example of it, whether it fails or succeeds? from what i know of the flash community there are alot of students and young people involved in the industry that cant really afford to be paying for such things, there main priority is to survive ie.. buy food and beer:) Any thoughts and maybe even a huge discussion on this issue would be wicked and valuable to others like me, the developers amongst us.



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