[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Mike Dransfield]

CyberOrg wrote:
> 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.
>   

Could you arrange for a poll somewhere, I think this decision really
should be made by the community.

How long should we give it?  2 weeks enough?

> 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
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