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you can run punbb (as native php) in asp.net using the language extension mentioned here

no, I think you misunderstand the use of that word:

  Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Proprietaries. [L.
     proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See Propriety, and
     cf. Proprietor.]
     1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a
        thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing
        in his own right. --Fuller.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to
        himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the
        time of profession.
        [1913 Webster]

proprietary means you own the exclusive rights to the source code. the computer has been around since atleast WWII.  nobody re-invented the computer, they re-made it (and did so in complete ignorance of the existence of the computer invented to crack the enigma code back then).  xorg did not invent windowing, they remade it.  point of the matter is: you don't need source code, schematics, blue prints, specifications, use cases, uml or any other modeling <thing> to copy something.  the little gray thing between your ears is all you need.

beyond this, I'm not even going to touch what you've said, because I hate economics, but understand how these things work.  R&D, architecture, and anything else that has to be done, does not typically impact the cost of goods as the actual production of it.  people are the biggest liability in manufacturing (or software engineering) because we make mistakes.  Have you not ever read about the industrial revolution?  there is a reason things are automated.  when you remove people from production, you not only save money (which is passed on to the consumer) but you save costs involved with defect management.    if you have an automobile manufacturer who produces 10 cars a day using 500 employees, the price of that car is (in its most basic of terms) the cost of 500 employees times the number of hours spent building it.  I can assure you that that cost is going to exceed the architect who drew the plans for the auto on a computer.  now, you remove 495 of those employees, you now have 495 people who no longer have any income, cannot buy bread, let alone a vehicle, and are able to produce 500 automobiles a day.  the problem is, you now have a surplus of goods, and nobody to buy them.

fact is, there are no groups around today who do not use some form of currency.  this means that the basis of life must revolve around obtaining that form of currency (be it money, cows, crops or whatever).  how well would you be able to sustain life as a cow farmer if you open sourced your cattle?  anyone is free to come take your livestock, and all you ask is for a non-compulsory donation.

there is nothing wrong with proprietary software because chances are, its not going to be some new concept like quantum physics that nobody else is going to figure out how to do.  meanwhile you're able to participate in your environment because it enables you to obtain some form of "currency" because you have what somebody needs (like the cows) and cannot provide for themselves.

I'd love to live in a world where everybody serves everyone else without pay, but I'm also a realist, and understand that thats not going to happen in my lifetime.

my profession is software engineering.  I also maintain multiple open source projects, and participate by publishing things about software engineering that I find interesting (feel free to check my blog).  I definitely believe in charging for software, owning source code that I do not ever publish.  I also believe in sharing (open source is how I got into this field).  there is absolutely nothing wrong with either IMO.

.net and mfc wrap the same functions.  you'll need to probably make sure wine is configured for .net 2.0.

personally, I liked your last style better.

yep, quite odd that he just didn't sign in w/ his regular acct and post it.

close your tags young man

well if you want to integrate it like phpbb is, yea it will take quite a bit of effort.  if you don't want the authentication for phpnuke and punbb integrated, then it shouldn't be that bad.  you will have to write the wrapper index.php for the module that wraps the functionality of punbb for modules.php to access.

according to a document published by google (don't remember where it is though), keyword ranking is based on a few factors.  one is the length of time your domain is registered for.  sites like mine that renew domain names yearly do no rank as high as a server who's domain is registered for the next 10 years.  another thing is that static content ranks higher than dynamic content... static content being described as a static file.  I'm guessing that a .html file will be considered a "file" and /asdf/asdf will be considered a directory, the .html will gain a higher ranking than the directory.

I use web ceo, and google analytics to monitor my site, and the progression from dynamic, to /asdf/asfd, to 123/title.html has happened very slowly, but the move between /asdf/asdf and /title.html has had an exponential increase in search engine hits, and it happened sort of all of the sudden (and my site doesnt get new content very often)...  when I moved from dynamic content to /asdf/asdf I also started using google sitemaps.  I used that for a number of months, but when I migrated to the html file model, the number of hits for the things (given certain keywords) on my site increased by orders of magnitude.

dont get me wrong, I still use java as part of my normal 9-5 (we have a custom SOLR--which is an extended lucene--search engine, as well as some web services doing SSO here at work).  extensibility is a big point though.  .net is very extensible, as the point of this thread was supposed to show, that it gives you a much higher degree of flexibility and lets you to write java, delphi, pascal, python, php, vb, C++, C#, and a ton of other languages that you are already familiar with. 

a couple of things that I could never stand about java though is not being able to declare (or override) operators, use pointers, or have data structures that acted like primitives.  One thing that drove me nuts about C++ was having to re-invent the wheel every time you started an application where you couldn't borrow code from other projects you did, that and the gratuitous misuse of macro's by C coders who refused to learn object oriented programming.  Java showed that a much more graceful way of coding can be done at nearly the same (if not better) than the way things had been being done in C or C++.  C# to me is more like a cleaner (albeit watered down) version of C++, which gives you some of the nice things we all liked about java, but put the developer back in control over the total development experience.

dunno where the links are lined out at, probably main.tpl, but since I never really used punbb's templates much I wouldn't really know.

this is what it looks like with the green (or whatever main theme you're using) image link.

pun uses sha1 if available, and md5 if its not.  these are hashing algorithms not encryption algorithms.

the difference being, with encryption, you pull the password from the data base, decrypt it and compare it with the user input.  w/ hashing, you hash the user input and compare it with whats stored in the db.  hashing produces a fixed width output, so if you hash a 2 gig file, or a 1 letter text field, you're going to get a 128 or 160 bit output (md5 = 128, sha1 = 160), where the size of your encrypted output is dependent of the size of the plain text input.