[wp-forums] Plugin author withholding working version in exchange for donations

[Mika A Epstein]

I took that up with her directly when I closed her plugin for having 
affiliate links.

Drew wrote:
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> It's not a very nice thing to do, but she's also under no obligation to
> provide support, free or otherwise AFAIK. The nature of the beast.
>
> I think your reply was the best route to take, but maybe something should
> be added in the context of plugin authors soliciting payment.
>
> Drew
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> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Chris Olbekson<chris at c3mdigital.com> 
> wrote:
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>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> I just noticed a plugin author responding to support requests asking 
>> users
>> to send her a donation in return for a working version of the plugin.
>>
>>
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-gravity-forms-stripe-add-on-invalid-token-id?replies=30
>>
>> I closed a few of the threads but wanted to get the advice of some of the
>> more experienced moderators on how to handle something like this.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Olbekson
>> C3M Digital WordPress Consulting& Development
>> C3MDigital.com (http://C3MDigital.com)
>>
>>
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