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Cristian Rodríguez wrote: | Kim Groneman escribió: |> Three reasons. First PHPBB is the closest open source product |> available but history has shown that security and features in PHPBB is |> significantly lacking compared with the closed source products being |> used. | | While I indeed agree that PHPbb security history is nothing to be happy | with, I'm sorry to tell you that "closed source" products dont it | better, at all, do you want a simple proof eh ? [...]
Well you could, indeed, try to make your point in a slightly less offensive way ;)
My personal opinion is that there is no silver bullet option. All candidate web forum software packages are written in PHP and, as such, have a rather high potential of security issues (compared to, say, running something in a JVM that can easily be locked down with access rules and has a much better record in terms of security).
We already have discussed whether we should go with an opensource solution instead, for obvious reasons, and if there had been a good opensource candidate in terms of features, support and security, we would have given it a preference, for the same obvious reasons.
Point is, the people who run it should be the people who decide on the software they want to use. Kim's point below is a very valid one IMO.
|> Third is pure supportability. vBulletin is fully supported by the |> company that owns it for updates/security/etc. which is extremely |> important in an environment like this where you want optimal up time. | | That's a valid point. | |> You'll notice that the existing boards that are coming together for |> this project are all using closed source product for their forums. | | Because probably they don't know anything better. ;-)
Note that you didn't propose an alternative that would have the same feature set as vBulletin or IPB :) phpBB really has a terrible security record.
cheers - -- ~ -o) Pascal Bleser pascal.bleser@opensuse.org ~ /\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill ~ __v FOSDEM::23+24 Feb 2008, Brussels, http://fosdem.org
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