[Compcomm] [Fwd: Re: The Next Step]

[RYX]

Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 20:50 +0800 schrieb Stephen Moore:
> is that all ??
> 
> lol
> 
> here's me imagining something expensive.....
> 
> but the question becomes who do we believe....
> 
> personally, from my non-techinical viewpoint, both arguements have
> some believability to them (not the right word but it'll do :D) 
It's up to you whom you believe more - a "salesman-show" or a bunch of
passionate enthusiasts and long time web-developers and php-coders who
are offering to "care and code" (and already proved to be able to do so
in form of the beryl/compiz forums)?

What benefit does it give the community if the forum-software is chosen
in a way that all professional web-devs refuse to work on it because it
is not free and open? 

This has nothing to do with emotion. I don't see the smallest reason to
work on a commercial piece of software if I don't get a cent paid for
it. If I work on free software, I feel good to just contribute without
getting paid. That's maybe not understandable for non-developers,
otherwise we wouldn't have to argue about something so obvious ...

Decisions based on pure logic (paired with a slight amount of ethics)
seem to not go well around here ... I won't further try to argue about
this. If you want vB, use it. If you want phpBB, use it. Give me a note
once you know what you want ...

> 
> so either way, i'll be happy (so long as we get a decent front page
> and the sections are split into subsections (all laid out on the first
> page, in the very nice ubuntu style ) :D
I can make you any frontpage you can dream of - with any type of
forum-software. People telling that thing X don't work with software Y
are lying and have no plan of things.

> 
> .........
> 
> is there some way of creating a compulsory poll among users with three
> options 
> 
> 1) vbulletin
> 2) open source alternatives
> 3) either
> 
> so we can get a decent number of people voting..... ??
If I am not totally mistaken we have exactly that poll. You won't get
more people to vote - most permanent visitors made their votes. Now the
task is: accept the community-vote or do what you (I not mean anyone
special here) think is best. 


:)