[Compcomm] The Next Step

[CyberOrg]

On 4/18/07, Will Farrington <kalmwave at gmail.com> wrote:
> There _are_ more than enough reasons for doing so.

> The ONLY factor that should affect this decision is the quality of the
> software and to what degree it will serve the community's needs. And for
> those requirements, vBulletin is the best choice.
>
To recap:

1. We are running Community web services not commercial services
2. Please list out why we cannot use open source alternatives (DO NOT
list features we can happily live without, i.e., updates/patches)
3. Free alternatives have been and are serving communities need of
compiz, beryl and countless other projects
4. vBulletin is the best choice - saying so doesn't make it so, best
choice is the one that reflects project's nature and alliance.

Point number 2 and 3 are very important when making decision so please
do try to overlook those.

And please do not play down the role of morality here, i wouldn't give
up my morality in this aspect (support for OSS) for some piece of
commercial software I can live without.

We should perhaps start another thread with topic "Forum software" I
am not going to sit quite when someone picks a software saying there
are no good OSS alternatives that we found useful.

-J