Enigma?

Now this may be interesting… Should you write your own code? … or… Download already available code?… this is a question that’s been bothering me for a while, as I think will bother others from now on (maybe)…
I’ll throw in some pros and cons about this subject… some will agree while others will not… here we go.

Downloading available code! (CMS, Blog, Guestbook, Forum, OnlineShop, etc)

Pros
• easy to install
• easy configuration
• many plug-ins
• many updates

Cons
• many updates, periodically need to check for them
• once you modded a module, you’ll have to mode it in every update
• often hard to digest code, hard to mod

Writing own code!

Pros
• you make it your way
• if you know what you’re doing you can secure it pretty well
• you update only what you use, no problems with modding
• you constantly improve your skills

Cons
• time consuming
• you make it your way – yep

I don’t know how other people are, but when it comes in scripting I usually do my own scripts… web applications only… while coming to desktop applications and client side script, I’d rather download them… because they usualy do not tend to be so complexly divided… that is, as mentioned already, my opinion… hoping to get some feedback on this issue…