s/writing/distributing/ There's nothing wrong with charging for writing code. It's when you charge people to use your code (that they will need to make modific

s/writing/distributing/ There's nothing wrong with charging for writing code. It's when you charge people to use your code (that they will need to make modifications to to get it to work) that it becomes detrimental to the community. On the other hand, it's less of an issue if you're charging people for something that works out of the box. That said, in my experience just about nothing works out of the box.