Jelsoft sold ?! not me!

[cyberphr]

Doesn't look like any _immediate_ changes will occur.

[The Geek]

Why should it change right now? You don't buy a successful company to change it. You only change unsuccessful companies.

To me, it looks like a logical move for ib so Ill reserve judgement for now

[winduff]

we won't even feel the change... it's like the VAT went up in germany this year. In 2006 everyone complained, now (2007) nobody complains or even knows about it....

That's of course no comparisson, but I don't think anything external will change, unlike internally

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

Pretty cool that people have a crystal ball to look in.

i can tell i have a crystal ball ... i'm in the market with high end buyers for so long that i know how the things ALWAYS goes in that part of the virtual...

sur the prices will change in the future... a company does not sell his market only to sell it... Jelsoft sold the stock to be richier, not poorer... and they surely not sold their part only because someone wanted to support them... they do not need a supporter, they need a higher market and the only way to go to it is buy giving more power to their company.

and i hope nobody will announce the price of this deal...

[AN-net]

several of their websites use vBulletin products. Why not buy the software maker of your site?

several... i have more websites running vbulletin than them... does that mean i have to buy the company ?!

my marketshare is 1.3 M$... that does not mean i have to invest all my profits to buy the software...

[Brandon Sheley]

interesting move..

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by nexialys

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=235378

as James may be in a April fools journey, i will wait for the pro-official echoes...

but if this is right, Jelsoft is now part of a bigger company, with guys who are paid more seriously and that means we are now all Volunteered within a mega-corporation...

i don't remember if Microsoft have volunteered persons in its charge, or if people are working for free in the Hilton hotels, but i think we will now have to face the facts... Jelsoft is not the place we were all welcome anymore...

i give support for free, i even coded for free for a long time... this have to end with this announcement.

vBulletin.org is not only a place for coders to share code, 25%+ of the actual system is based on our own work provided for free and taken without our consent to build this tool that was sold to a company with a lot of resources...

we all deserve to be paid for the result. and we will not be paid. being paid is not only important for the cash, it is important for the situation... if us coders would not have provided these hacks for years, who would tell if Jelsoft would've been sold in this situation... we're the ones who make the vBulletin software look better for each version... we're also are the guys who support this software because at vB.com they are not supporting it when it is modified... and i can tell it is rare to see unmodified forums these days...

anyway... James, this is not a joke to make if you are on an April Fools journey... and if this is the real facts, sorry but i quit... for good... that's enough being frustrated by the "way" we are not supported by Jelsoft, now we have to be unsupported by a bigger company that will never pay us a penny even if we're the ones to make it rich...

think of it coders, they are now able to pay the guys who support their software... if you do not receive a cent of what they will gain from your work, do the same... quit !!!... you can work by yourself on your own side... vb.org will now be a place for volunteers who have too much time to spend and are not interested to be paid... never!

Last time i checked we (the users of vBulletin.org) were all here (vBulletin.org) to have fun and share our work with others to bring a smile to their face. This has never changed since day one, some peoples views of how the site works has.

[phill2003]

Who cares, I own my license already and so wont have to pay any more for another

[Reeve of shinra]

Originally Posted by AN-net

several of their websites use vBulletin products. Why not buy the software maker of your site?

Companies are actually going in the other direction. Less companies are doing everything in house and they are now trying to focus thier attention and thier resources on thier core businesses by outsourcing as much as they can to third parties. Outsourcing gets a black mark in the media but if your main business is making widgets, it makes sense to let another company run and optimize your website and your network.

Internet Brands is just a holding company of profitable internet businesses - there is no synergy or even core market or core focus. Thats what scares me.