[Biker_GA]

First of all, attempting to compare old library books to obsolete code is just wrong. There's absolutely no similarity between the two, other than they're old. Talk about a flawed premise.

Speaking from an administrative standpoint, tossing old code out there for the clueless to download is nothing more than a recipe for disaster. You only have to read the support threads to see that there are those with a bare minimum of knowledge attempting to run vBulletin. To make obsolete code available to those individuals would exponentially create more complaints, broken boards, and unhappy customers.

Leaving the old threads in place via the archives serves a twofold purpose. One, it gives a historical timeline of how vBulletin has grown through the years. Second, it provides a minimal support thread for those that may be running the code on older versions.

As for wanting the code, you should have saved the instructions to your local machine. To expect vBulletin.org to be your off site backup source is unrealistic.