[fenderbob]

Originally Posted by Replicant

It would be nice to see IB offer a dev/demo license only for the third party developers. It might spur some third party products that could possibly boost sales on their end. But this is probably just a pipe dream.

I wonder how we could petition IB to do this. Unless their goal is to totally destroy vBulletin, I can't understand why they wouldn't be open to something like this. I'm a graphic designer and when I was in school, $5000+ software was available for free under a student license. It had some limitations...but still.

I'm pretty sure there would be a huge market for mods and addons for vB5. With social media out the way it is, forums have to keep up or they are going to eventually die. Forums need to have the bells and whistles of social media sites and apparently you aren't going to get those with the software right out of the box.

It doesn't make any sense at all to penalize developers by making them pay full price for a new license if they are only going to use it for tests or to further develop the software. Developers are actually doing IB a HUGE favor by making 3rd party products for it. If vB5 had a ton of addons and mods--more so that its competitors--that would be a definite selling point.