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Old 12-02-2012, 06:26 PM
Christos Teriakis Christos Teriakis is offline
 
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I think that all (maybe first of all me including) came out off topic. Maybe my bad English don't help me alot to move my thoughts to text. So let's try with a simple example, even if many users will not like it.
Example: When vB4 came out for a very long time (years I can say), vBulletin were continuing releasing new version of vB3 with new features and not just with bugs fixes as is the most common in software (any type of software including PC applications).
This brought a strange situations. vB3 users didn't moved to vB4 because they were getting 90% of the new features. For me, this was I***t (I added the asterics on my own).
As I'm seeing now, vB does not follows this route (something that I encourage). As long as vB5 came in life, anything new must be on this version. Didn't seen any update for vB4.
So, is this the new status? If yes, then me (and most coders I believe) will move to vB5. Simple because all vB4 users we will wish to move on. But if vB keeps updating vB4 with the new features, then will make a cicle. Endless..

Hope that the example was more clear (I want to believe).

Chris

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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5 View Post
The issue is the 95% of users who aren't coders...
As long as a product has officially reached its EOL and there is no official sales and official support, everybody has the right to release FOR FREE such patches.
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