Did not mean to reply to this topic, although I agree with the creator of it, but I reached a point that I need to do it.
It is fair to charge for a plugin, but the current situation does not allow it XF. A new system that nobody knows his future, with a base of plugins and still paid quite tiny. Who would buy such a system??
On the other hand, costing $ 200.00 Vbulletin has a number of plugins / themes / articles immense, it ends up making it worth paying this amount.
Every day I see the XF as an amateur system that has everything to go right, but because of certain decisions is falling increasingly hope to be wrong in the future and change everything, but it is not looking.
Many may crucify me, but this time around for Vbulletin 4 to be the right decision.