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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #75, on April 3rd, 2011, 06:44 PM »
Honestly, though, I'm not sure which is *actually* worse.

DNF, yes, 14 years in the making. But it's had various legal issues hanging over it owing to companies going bankrupt and rights transfers and so on.

SMF 2.0... 5 1/2 years in the making, releasing 'minor' release candidates every 6 months...
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #76, on April 3rd, 2011, 11:21 PM »
The only difference between the two?

We're SURE that DNF is coming out at this point. :P

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #77, on April 3rd, 2011, 11:26 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on April 3rd, 2011, 11:21 PM
The only difference between the two?

We're SURE that DNF is coming out at this point. :P
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #78, on April 5th, 2011, 10:15 AM »
I never thought THAT would have happened before DNF's release, either! :lol:

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #79, on April 5th, 2011, 05:41 PM »
Surely you jest?
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #80, on April 5th, 2011, 05:45 PM »
Well, it would imply that the SMF team wil finish up the licence stuff and then proceed to fix 40+ bugs (or at least be comfortable with marking them as 'things we'll fix in 2.1' like they did with dozens before it) - inside 2 months or so.

Even if the licence stuff were dealt with today, that means they pretty much have to fix 2 bugs every 3 days. Somehow I just don't see it.

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #81, on April 5th, 2011, 05:47 PM »
Well, it could be worst... SMF could be manage by politicians, and then, 2.0 will never be finished.

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #82, on April 5th, 2011, 05:54 PM »
Quote from DoctorMalboro on April 5th, 2011, 05:47 PM
Well, it could be worst... SMF could be manage by politicians, and then, 2.0 will never be finished.
Why do you think it's taken 5 years?

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #84, on April 5th, 2011, 06:47 PM »
See, that's one of the reasons I'm wary of publishing a demo of Wedge right now... I can imagine the conversations at the SMF team.

"My, it's really good... And that's their vanilla release? Uh oh. We can't compete. We need to rework our stuff."

And then 10 years later......... "Wedge? We beat them. We managed to prevent them from releasing it. We won fair and square! Or close to. Well, of course it meant we never released a new version of SMF but it was the price to pay. I wouldn't do it any differently."

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #85, on April 5th, 2011, 07:26 PM »
Officially, they are not 'running scared', and officially they do not think that we 'have won', and that officially they wish us good luck for Wedge.

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #86, on April 5th, 2011, 07:30 PM »
Quote from Arantor on April 5th, 2011, 07:26 PM
Officially, they are not 'running scared', and officially they do not think that we 'have won', and that officially they wish us good luck for Wedge.
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #87, on April 5th, 2011, 07:35 PM »
Not going to get into whether it's true or not, simply that's the official line.

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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #88, on April 5th, 2011, 08:50 PM »
Officially, how much needs to be rewritten to be a unique product outside the need to be a fork of smf?
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Re: Post count fever
« Reply #89, on April 5th, 2011, 09:21 PM »
Quote from texasman1979 on April 5th, 2011, 08:50 PM
Officially, how much needs to be rewritten to be a unique product outside the need to be a fork of smf?
Even if it is a complete rewrite, it will still remain a fork of SMF.
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