SMF 1.0 Beta 6 Released to Charter Members

[Vinoth]

I am learning PHP, but still could not find an nice book to get in/

[CM]

What are you talking about, there is no "30-day-trial" period on IPB, it is for addon things etc. etc.
You can use your downloaded soft as long as you want, and update it! Do not tell us lies 

since IPB changed their license there is no way to use it 'other-than-30-day-trial' Happy user from holland!

[compa]

im not ....

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QUOTE
The Company, at its discretion, may offer a free trial download of
Invision Power Board available on its web site and certain authorized
distributors. Use of this free trial is also provided under the terms of
this Agreement with the additional notice that no technical support
or service for the free trial download will be provided by the
Company. Permanent use of the software requires purchasing the
license.

that tiny bit of text at the end was inserted in the license a month ago ....  so it's trial software which you can use UNLIMITED to TRY but need to purchase to use it permanent ... eg. for testing you can use it, but production requires license ... this is the reason for sites like www.invisionpower.nl to quit all work and support they did on IPB (as the original IPB-portal from Bouke and the dutch language translations)

so ... i'm not lying ... they just inserted this tiny text in they're license, and ofcourse (in most countries by law) previous downloaded ipb-bundles (containing the original license without the requirement of purchase) are still free, but upgrading or downloading it now means committing to their new license ...

would i be lying to install SMF .... i think it's a nice piece of software and we're definitly upgrading our current IPB board within a few weeks, but if IPB hadn't changed licenses i don't think i would have ported the forum at all (it's nice playing though, but i have to work for the living!)

so ... please don't call me a liar ... it's just a change of invision's point of sales ...

greeTz

[[Unknown]]

Don't waste your breath, Compa.  CM here is a troll, he picks on anyone who says IPB isn't better and tries to stir commotion.  He's been temporarily banned for it before, and I may have to see who's against making that permanent if he wants to cause more arguments and agitation.

While I think Invision Power Board is a perfectly good product, and I think their licensing changes are indeed interesting... I would prefer this, usually very heated for some reason, topic was not discussed here.  Feel free to talk about Invision, the forum or organization, so long as you're not arguing or getting heated about it - or causing others to do those things.

Self taught programmers are, almost always, better than school taught ones - so long as they know it.  School taught ones don't have the drive, and don't think outside the box.... self taught ones do.  This is, of course, a very wide generalization.

-[Unknown]

[compa]

Righto ... i wont waste my keyboard or breath than ... thx for the info ... besides i wasn't 'bout to start an argument, just happen to like SMF very much, still learning how everything falls into place with it though ... but that's with every new piece of software ...

did i mention droppin out of my programming courses at school because they were boring? i did, never liked psd's and stuff something, and thinking outside the box is what i earn my money with nowadays as a unix specialist for various customers ... but back on topic, i'll try and look what i can do with smf, besides changing to it anyhow as far as the co-admin on the website i'm switching and i already agreed upon (depends on our users though) ... but after that im gonna take a plunge into the code and see where i can be of assistence in terms of smf and/or mods .... besides, feel free to moderator/move my and CM's post the clean up the thread (deleting them would be oil on fire for CM i guess)

cheers!

[Cerberus]

Hector Gonsales
UPDATE: I see that it's Unknown

[dracomiconia]

He's just a cheater....

I was trying to find a topic I knew he had posted... looking some words in posts by Author [Unknown].... nothing.... another words, nothing, nothing, ¡Nothing!

At last, I saw the change in his name....

[Fizzy]

Like there could be any other member id '#2' with over 12,000 posts to his credit    

[Nyx]

I want RC1 

[Vinoth]

RC1 will be released soon, if u need beta 6 go for charter.

IPB SUCKS,  SMF IS BEST.

[compa]

spechack starting to go up in flames ?

i'd like to see my smf test board go production in a few days to determine if it's at least ipb-level or (expected) above it ... for now my users are all at ipb, but if nobody has any objections to the (test) smf-board runnin' beside it, ill switch first of august ...

[Fizzy]

That would be interesting Compa.

I'm sure that no-one would argue against fair and balanced benchmarks. Speaking of benchmarks, which would you use?

[compa]

i guess my forums are too small to use the term benchmarks, but comparing database structures i would say SMF should perform better in terms of calls and structure to the database (also since it doesn't have the amount of 'not-so-frequently-used-nice-2-haves-but-dunno-how-or-why-to-use-them' features :-)

[Vinoth]

IPB is good, but not enough to withstand agaisnt SMF.

i was using IPB , i had some problems, their themes donot look nice and some features are disabled.

Either Choose VB or SMF.

VB = $$$

SMF = $$$$ Free.

[Overseer]

SMF was designed to be better... it has had the advantage of being able to review the competition 

[Fizzy]

SMF was designed to be better... it has had the advantage of being able to review the competition 

He who laughs last laughs longest 

That's the nature of the world I guess. SMF has learned from many of the mistakes made by others, no doubt one day there will be a successor to SMF. In the meantime though .............. 

[hyapadi]

anyway.. what is smf license? gpl? I`m too lazy to download the smf setup files just to see the license. txt.

[Rpg Cyco]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/license.txt

- Rpg Cyco

[hyapadi]

Hm.... is it GPL compatible license?

[Peter Duggan]

No, it's not GPL, it's been specifically drawn up for Simple Machines and is substantively different!