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I didn't say that vBulletin should, would or could be open source, merely that if a major hack were developed to produce an Enterprise version, that the ownership of the hack might later need the benefits of Open Source to be developed... i.e. collaborative development and vision leadership. In no way at all does that imply that vBulletin code would ever be distributed or reproduced: It merely says that a hack of this size and nature and given the complex integration of it could possibly benefit from not being owned by an individual. Thus if such an undertaking were decided to be a positive thing and commenced, were any key developers to then quit the project, that the project life could be continued as that developer wouldn't "take their ball home with them".

Consider for example the life of the HTL if KuraFire to abandon it (sick of disclaiming, but... what IF he got sick of it, what IF he were hit by a bus, what IF his life priorities changed, what IF? etc etc... project chosen arbitrrily, etc, blah blah)... wouldn't those that now rely upon the hack find that their hacks needed re-working, etc... wouldn't several others in the community wish to continue that hack... well, they couldn't as KuraFire has placed a license on it preventing that and owning it.

So my only mention in relation to open source was based on several enormous IF's.
IF the community likes the idea of an Enterprise version
IF Jelsoft doesn't want to pursue this
IF the community wanted to pursue it
IF the scale and size of this project is anything near what you could image
and IF those who wanted to contribute felt that collaborative and open development would be the way forward
THEN they could CONSIDER open FOR THE HACK ALONE and not vBulletin, which of course you would have to own.

I would also like to disclaim whilst I'm here, anything said ever by me that you could possibly interpret as being negative or against whatever beliefs you have personally attached to vBulletin. I am a very clam and patient fellow, and my intentions are solely to try and improve vBulletin... and this thread is merely a DISCUSSION about what we could possibly achieve as a community to help make things better.

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