[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Mike Dransfield]

Quinn Storm wrote:
> Well let me try again here, I'm CCing this message to RYX too since it seems I 
> might not be able to post to the list (and he can forward, I'm sure)
>
> I see no pressing need for vBulletin either, and again the decisions of any 
> other group do not matter when it comes to our choices.  We have to decide 
> based on our own needs and wishes, and contrary to Will's position, there is 
> an element of "morality" involved, otherwise why be developing open source 
> software at all?  And yes I use Ubuntu, but no I don't believe they are doing 
> everything right (ex. their forums as well as launchpad).
>   

Quinn.  Morality.  LOL.


> In short, there is no pressing need to move to anything like vBulletin, and 
> quite importantly, there are tools to migrate from another solution *to* 
> vBulletin should it ever become *that* important.
>
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 07:56:13 RYX wrote:
>   
>> I totally agree with cyberyorg ... and sorry, but I find your position
>> ignorant as well, Will. We ALL should not only USE but also SUPPORT
>> open-source. Buying commercial software isn't supporting anyone but one
>> company. It gives us no benefits we really _need_ ...
>>
>> If we want ANY new features for phpBB we should get our asses up and
>> implement them. How many professional PHP-coders are members in our
>> community? It would take us about two or three days to create a basic
>> plugin-system for phpBB which offers a filter/hook-based
>> plugin-interface for writing plugins in pure PHP (instead of writing
>> MODs). That is nothing very complicated ...
>>
>> It is totally stupid to always bring up that the Ubuntu-forums use
>> vBulletin and so we have to do it, too ... The Ubuntuforums have
>> hundreds of thousands of members -  and how many members do compiz+beryl
>> have _together_? A few thousand - which includes only a couple of
>> hundred permanent members ...
>>
>> I think this is another perfect example that some of us seem to have
>> incredibly "outer-earth"-expectations concerning what we are doing here.
>> And I can only repeat: please come back to reality ...
>>
>> It's as simple as this: We are running an open-source community so we
>> should use open-source software - no moral in this, just good old
>> logic ...
>>
>> :)
>>
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