Forum software gossip :)

Hello James, 
 
This is Charles Warner from Invision Power Services, Inc. I understand 
that you own the license rights to phpBB and we are interested in 
opening talks about acquiring the rights to phpBB to add it to our 
products and services. 
 
We are actively looking to acquire products to add to our line and have 
investment dollars to spend on these transactions. Your interest is 
appreciated. 
 
Regards, 
 
Charles Warner 
Invision Power Services, Inc. - President 
charles@invisionpower.com 
Phone: +1 434 352-9311 

---------------------------------------------------------------

Charles, 
 
Thanks, but no thanks. 
 
We're not interested in selling phpBB in any way. The whole team is 
committed to keeping phpBB 100% Free Software. The goals of the phpBB 
project and goals of IPS are in not compatible. We write forum software 
because we love it, we're not in this for any sort of material gain 
whereas you clearly are. 
 
Sorry, but I'll always do everything in my power to make sure that phpBB 
remains Free. 
 
Thanks, 
 
-- 
- James 'theFinn' Atkinson 
Founder & Project Manager, phpBB

---------------------------------------------------------------

James,
 
I assumed you would say as much but I thought I would express our
interest anyway. Good luck in your worthy endeavor.
 
Just so you know, we may be porting phpBB to a sort of "lite" message
board offering with fewer features and abilities. We had thought to
write one ourselves but there is no real need to reinvent anything when
we can utilize your proven base coding with just a little bit of
removal of extra features to make it that lite version we are looking
for. I thought I would tell you now so you were not surprised later.
 
Thank you for your time.