If you buy windows 98, and then XP comes out, you don't get to upgrade for free do you?

I know this is not the same and I'm not happy about it either, but you used a bad example lol

It was known for months. It was in the leaked information that got posted over half a million or so forums on that eventful day, and the information that's caused vBulletin.com to have people literally trying to sue Jelsoft in return. Okay, not much was discussion on .org, but .org's a modification community/developer community, not just support.

There's a forum only option for the license as is. I'd assume that would be either a cheap or free upgrade.

That does not apply because you can't buy a lifetime windows license with free upgrades.:)
We don't pay for the upgrades, we pay for support.:D
So I did use the correct example, but you reply'd with a wrong example.;)

I did not see anything change for the better either since the IPB takeover of vBulletin.....

Without any luck I guess....

Well that could be, but it was not in the announcement forum, it was not known to me and the millions or so forums it was on, did not belong to the forums that either a lot of my friends or myself visit.:)
I visit 6 forums, of which I administer 1, am admin on another, moderate 4. Next to that I have my work and my family so it's quite possible for somebody not to heave read this and still be very busy.

If this is indeed the case, nobody will here me complaining anymore about this for the time being. But in that case it would be nice if somebody from staff would confirm this.

No but Apple offers Leopard owners Snow Leopard for next to nothing ;)

ahhhhhhhhhhh but this is where you are incorrect again... when you bought win 98, you bought the license for it for life..... the life of the software.... and all updates to it. Although you did not buy a license to win xp so you can't. Windows XP is not an update to win 98, it's a new version.

See the picture now?

anyway this has nothing to do with this thread so I will stop now.

Yes I saw it before also, but I just don't quite agree, because with vB i have not only licensed updates but also all feature versions, at the price of yearly support, you see?:)
But it doesnt'matter. Next time I will find a better example.:D

I dislike the idea that I purchased add ons that will now be obsolete, will my purchase of those add ons reflect in the pricing of the Suite license or will that be extra money just gone?

Looks like I will be researching more into IPB. :)

Maybe or maybe not. Nothing has been announced officially yet.

So, you're saying that you have no problem paying for something you're never going to use then?

Historically, yes, vBulletin has been reasonable and kept very comparable. That was all before IB, however

Bad example, really. If you buy Win 98, and the sale states "all future versions of Windows will be free for 10 years", you get just that, Win 98 AND all future versions of Win. free for 10 years

As the owner of 2 forums with blog addons, I fully agree here 100%.

It really is a wait and see on that one, just like the "will my current licenses actually be eligible for what I purchased them for" question is a wait and see. Honestly, here's my 0.02 on the matter, and my own experience:

I have VBA CMPS in the system already, so, I'm effectively screwed. vBulletin CMS is way too late, and , honestly, there's no way in hell you're going to get me to redo 50-100 pages of CMS data JUST to get to a blog. That's a bit horrific.

Of course, staying with 3.x is an option, temporarily that is. Eventually, 3.x will run out of gas, become vulnerable, then what? What option do I, the user have then?

Whomever thought up the idea of two products (one cms+all, one bare), and no addon modules clearly has no marketing or development experience. How do you justify telling your users "I'm sorry, but we no longer respect your purchase"? Huh??