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This entry is purely to link to a great point of view on the whole Internet Brands vs. xenForo debacle.
I hope you enjoy the read as much as I did.
Let’s Think – The Real Reason for Internet Brands v. xenForo from vBTruth.com

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So today I became a proud owner of XenForo, the newest forum platform.  For those who have never purchased forum software before, I thought I would tell you how the process went.
It all began at 10:40 Eastern when I verified that I had the proper funds in my PayPal account.  You would be very surprised how many people go to purchase something and fail to check their account to see if they have the proper funds in there.
After seeing that I was okay, I headed over to XenForo.com, clicked Buy, entered my contact infomation, and headed to the checkout page.  I want to commend both XenForo and PayPal for making this process very smooth.  There’s nothing like getting hung up in the payment process to ruin your spirits.  Everything was perfect.
I logged into my new customer account and was ready to download the software.  But before I could do that I …

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About 24 hours ago, Internet Brands (IB), the owner of the popular forum software vBulletin, created a post on their company’s forum announcing that they are commencing a lawsuit against Xenforo, a new forum software company, and its founders.  Internet Brands says,
The suit is simple: we claim that Kier, Mike, and Ashley have infringed and violated contracts they signed with us to gain unfair business advantage. As such, Xenforo’s software unfairly stands on the shoulders of more than a decade of development by Jelsoft. Internet Brands owns this intellectual property.
What are you really afraid of IB?  Are you afraid of the success of the Kier, Mike and Ashley?  Are you afraid that they will build a product superior to yours?
Are you afraid that you will lose customers to Xenforo?  Well, you should be.  This action is childish.  You’re running to tell on them, saying that they aren’t playing nice.  Yes, …

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I think every blogger goes through a point where they think, “What should I blog about?” Obviously, for me anyway, random topics don’t work very well.  I need something consistent.  I need a theme.  Well, today I think I’ve come up that theme.
I started “surfing the net” regularly about nine years ago.  Right from the beginning I mainly visited chat rooms and discussion forums.  Having conversations with people from other states, or even other countries, about the same topic amazed me.  There was one forum, SoundDomain, that I continue to visit even today.
Over the next few years I joined other communities (forums) before starting a few of my own in 2005.  Only one of those remains active today, Skywarn Online.  This community has over 2,700 members and 42,000 posts.  Not too bad considering it has a very specific audience, storm spotters.
A couple years ago I started using Facebook and Twitter. …

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“Chimpie, where have you been?”
I’m such a bad chimp. I win HostGator’s Site of the Month award, create a blog entry about it, then abandon the site for the next 40 days. tsk, tsk tsk
I apologize to all of my followers. I’ve been extremely busy with my current job (Sales Floor Team Leader at Super Target) and my new job, Sales Manager for The Hacienda Collection (www.thehaciendacollection.com).
To all of my Target friends, no, I will not be leaving Target just yet. But I have to say that I’ve very excited to be working with doors and cabinetry again.
I’ll post more soon (yeah right, Chimpie). But for right now check out our website at www.thehaciendacollection.com!
Chimpie