Hi

I just found this support program WonderDesk ( http://www.wonderdesk.com/ ) that looks A LOT like dbman.

Does anybody know if it's based on dbman?

And they're selling it for $499.

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Greg L
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www.GLdev.com

Gawd, I feel guilty now! So I choose to delete my shameful comments and apologise to all concerned. Possibly.

Bad BAD adam!

[This message has been edited by dahamsta (edited May 06, 1999).]

I took a look and it is definitely based on DBman.... but also has the "Ultimate Bulletin Board" mixed in with it. This person has taken alot of time to combine both scripts and add graphics and such.

They may actually be charging for the mod work that they have done to both scripts?

Ah, so they possibly, allegedly, might, may have "acquired" two scripts?

Here's what Alex has to say:

www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum12/HTML/000231.html

I'm sure the UBB people would feel the same. Then again, they could easily have an arrangement with both parties, so who am I to judge? I retract and rephrase my last statement. Now it's, "If they nicked the code, set the lawyers on 'em".

Gawd I have a big mouth and a troublesome sense of humour don't I?

adam

(Felt guilty about this one too. From now on I'm keeping shtum!)

[This message has been edited by dahamsta (edited May 06, 1999).]

Any official reply from Alex?

I certainly don't think it's right to use DBman in such way. But that's my opinion.

Unless they have some kind of special license from Alex??

oh well I guess if Alex wants to do something about it he will

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Greg L
gregl@email.com
www.GLdev.com

My understanding is that wonderdesk is based on DBMan and that the author has a license from Alex to market it. (That's what the developer told me anyway.)


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JPD

Hi guys,

I am the creator of the WonderDesk. Sorry, I didn't see this post for quite some time.

It is based on DBMan and I am selling it with permission from Alex. For each WonderDesk that is sold, I have to purchase a DBMan license ($100) from Alex.

The Ultimate Bulletin Board is not part of the WonderDesk at all. I use it on the website, but it has nothing to do with the WonderDesk itself.

I hope this clears things up. Sorry I didn't see this post earlier.

I just read Katana Man's response - I purchased our UBB and I am amazed at the similarity of the wonderdesk control panel and UBB's Control panel and they are not from the same or similar script? (even named the same "Control Panel").

Wow, amazing coincidence! The saying must be true "all programmers think alike". LOL

 
Sorry Katana Man, I take it all back.

I'm a bad BAD man!



adam