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	"Taking The Food From The Mouths Of My Children"
	OK, let's say you spend a long, long time writing a rather nifty ComboBox for ASP.NET. What would you do if someone looked at your code to fix issues in their own version? What would you do if they then gave their version away for free? And to make it worse, what would you do if they publicly thanked you? It all makes me wonder why I bother. Why go to the effort of producing controls at all? Why spend time fixing the really difficult DHTML issues whenever someone else will just come along, "review" the code and then release their own version, for free, so that people don't buy from the folks that fixed the issues? Why do I bother? (P.S. No, I don't have kids.) Categories: PowerPack Permalink #.Posted by 'Geoff' on Wednesday, 15 June 2005 at 7:06PM <- Previous Blog Post Next Blog Post ->

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