vB Lite

Is it possible to totally hack this up until it is as good as the full version ? I know that is possible with the UBB.

Also - are there any dedicated vB hacking sites ?

Thankyou
James

This might make me sound like a hypocrite, but whatever...

I didn't like what happened to the UBB with the "freeware scene." I didn't believe that a whole plethora of freeware hacks should've been released. The fact that if you spent a couple days, you could have a UBB that walked and talked like a licensed UBB for free made many people not even bother with buying a real one.

In hindsight, I probably should've resigned from my mod position at UBBCHH. My opinion is pretty much the opposite of other freeware hackers.

Although I'm not encouraging them to stop the freeware hackers, realize that freeware hacking for the UBB didn't become "mainstream" until January 2000, in the 5.3x version. Here, we're only on 1.13.

I guess I'm just overprotective. LOL.

I have pretty strong feelings about this too. There are two main reasons for having the lite version: to allow you to test it running on your server, and to be able to get into the script a little bit if you aren't sure about purchasing it.

I can understand there are people that may not be able to afford the full version, or think the price is too much. But this doesn't mean that you should have the right to take the lite version and modify it to make it functionally equivilant to the full version. Just because it is possible, that doesn't mean you should or that it is right.
It's just like other trial software you download from the internet... you get 30 days, or some features are disabled.

There is alot of time and effort that is involved in creating a software package the size of vBulletin, and it just isn't fair not to pay for the right to use it.

-Chris

I don't know if I agree. I think there definately should be a restriction on the re-distribution of edited vB Lite files. But you're not going to stop it, and we're not all script warez kiddies. Some of us just simply can't afford it. But to say the Lite version could outpace the paid for one is a bit over the top. Maybe after a week's work from a very experienced PHP/mySQL programmer, but how many script kiddies are that ?

-James