Invision Power must be loosing money or something

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:07 pm

They went from 100% free, to free but pay for support, to not free at all, but unlimited trial, to no trial. All this within about 2-3 months.

And check this out: http://www.invisionboard.com/?triallimited

They encode it so no one can even see the code.

Talk about paranoid for a company that had free as a promise. We won't be upgrading any time soon and when we do it won't be to IPB. It will be to ZB which I need to get off my butt and finish up! Lots to be put into it still. Christmas vacations should be a perfect time to work on it.

As for the encoded version of IPB, I'm sure there's a way to decode it to get the source.

You know, just for coding ideas and what not. Suposely somewhere in the source they actually state that they stole code from another script! I did not see it for myself but someone else told me.

It's really sad how this company just went in the pits. They turned in Microsoft. Or Enron.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:09 pm

Hehe Enron

(will never get old)

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:09 pm

I'm not going to post a link or anything, but let's just say that it's awfully easy to get a truly 'unlimited trial'

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:15 pm

haha yep, even without the zend decoding, since well, let's just say we can wait for the actual release. (I have a nice copy of 2.0 somewhere that I did not bother to install yet) I'd never run a warezed copy for the forum since it's a big risk, but it's fun to have for playing around on my server.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:00 am

2-3 months is not bad red it tells me they had a market plan going one which would make them money by getting everyone using their stuff then change their stuff and make everyone pay to upgrade?

seems normal to me.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 12:56 pm

Yeah but that's a company that promissed to always keep things free and they turned into Microsoft on us.

Hopefully more people like me will rebel against it and switch to a different script.

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