[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by Brad

If you don't visit how is it that you saw my reply?

You're missing the point, he can release it anywhere for all I care. As long as I'm allowed to modify and re-release it freely anywhere I want I will be happy.

This has nothing to do with vBulletin.org, vBulletin.org is not the vBulletin community..it's simply a place where that community meets (well part/most of it anyway).

None of that holds true if anyone is free to pick it up and run with it. So what if an "un qualified" programming plays with it? What does skill level matter? Is he not allowed to learn by doing like the rest of us? Are you saying he won't pick up good habits by reading and making modifications to code released by a respect hacker in our community?

In your eyes this site may have "failed" but your attitude is not helping to correct this problem at all. Are things really so bad that two people with a different view point on a subject can't discuss it here without bringing up the old "the community is dead" argument?

I'm still here...(almost) 6 years running and helping out where possible. There are plenty of people around here that have been around as long as I have (if not longer). You might not see us much but then again we tend to stay out of the 'board politics' because we know better by now.

But back to the point; Why are you guys so against having this released here but so quick to have it sold to another service provider? Have you forgotten what happened to vBgallery? What happens if this new owner decides to stop providing support/updates for the software you own? What if they're not interested in transferring the rights to the software to someone else? These are things you all should be thinking about as a customer.

We both now that vbgallery case was totally different. vBGallery was killing photopost sales thats why they forced Brian to give up on the script. The background story may be different but the main idea on photopost was surely killing vbgallery.

However on the other hand Gars , Gal , Gaz have no competition product in the market . Gars is probably one of the best 2 top selling product as vBulletin addons and if Sam will decide to sell it he'll make sure the new owner will be a company who already provides good support and has quality products. So your theory may have a 1% chance but unfortunately mine has 50% of chance.

As for the vb.org friendly i gave up all my hopes for this site. You are right this is not the place to discuss but i just wanted to explain why i don't want those hacks to be released here. If you want to discuss about vb.org more you're always welcome to discuss that privately Brad.