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[juggernaut]

I'm thinking of putting one up on my site. In the past I was dead set against it as I see a ton of them become flame and sit kicking contests. But after thinking it over I'm thinking it might be a good thing to offer my customers as a way of letting them get to know some of the cam hosts and keep them in the site for longer periods. I looked over some of the freeware IE Yabb, and php. Is there any advantage other then support then purchasing? I see this one is by vBulletin. Is it better then the free code? Only downside to free code that I see is open source (means good for development but bad for security) Are the purchased versions any more secure then free? Is it worth having one that needs to be managed most likly on a daily basis? Just looking for some thoughts from the wise ones. Thanks Jugg.