phpnuke sold?

Regular Joined: Jun 09, 2004 Posts: 79

A friend contacted me today. He says he emailed FB yesterday, and here is the reply he received:

Quote:

Hello;

PHP-Nuke doesn't belong to me anymore.

You can contact the new PHP-Nuke's Support Team at the email [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] or by sending a private message to the user "nukelite" at phpnuke.org and they will be able to come up with a solution to your concern in the next few hours.

Sorry for any inconvenient this may have caused to you.

Regards,

Francisco Burzi

Regular Joined: Mar 14, 2005 Posts: 91

WOW, wonder who bought it?

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:50 am

Hey does that mean we can remove all those annoying FB copyright messages? ^^
Strange that is says nothing about it on; [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:35 pm

The English is too good for FB but that doesn't mean it could not have been written on his behalf.
For the record, my personal opinion is that if anyone paid him his asking price, they would have to be stark raving mad. It's is open source and GPL licensed so there is no way any new owner could reap back that sort of expenditure on the software itself.

If there is a buyer and part of the deal included ownership of the domain then that's a different kettle of fish all together Smile

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:42 pm

Guardian2003 wrote:

The English is too good for FB but that doesn't mean it could not have been written on his behalf.
For the record, my personal opinion is that if anyone paid him his asking price, they would have to be stark raving mad. It's is open source and GPL licensed so there is no way any new owner could reap back that sort of expenditure on the software itself.

If there is a buyer and part of the deal included ownership of the domain then that's a different kettle of fish all together Smile

Yea, I was surprised at the English, too - only one word used improperly. They forwarded me the headers. Definitely shows FB's name in the email address. That's the same email address that shows on phpnuke.org's commercial license page under "How to proceed to have the permission?". Wondering if it could be an automated response. If my curiosity gets the best of me, maybe I will send an email and see what happens. As for the subject... Laughing

Update: I did a Google search for "PHP-Nuke doesn't belong to me anymore." Found one link to a blog where someone says they requested a refund and received that email from FB. The article is dated October 27, 2007.

PHP Nuke Page Rank drop and link fraud

registered · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:45 pm

Don't you just love your GNU/Linux OS compared to freaking Windows.
Also note the expiration date

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P.S. Vista normaly means: Room with a view, but it's dark Laughing

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:24 am

Yeah somebody must have bought it. Too many new things happening that don't seem like FB.

Quote:

NOW YOU CAN SELL YOUR OWN MODULES, THEMES, TEMPLATES, BLOCKS, AND SO ON, THROUGH PHPNUKE STORE

lol, I bet this goes really well Shocked

Quote:

New version of PHPnuke 9.0 will be available soon.

going from 8.1 to 9.0 only makes sense if there have been big changes Confused

Quote:

Your opinion is really important! Do not forget to give us your opinion about PHPnuke at our suggestions box.

Click here to submit your opinion

Ok, that is definitely not FB. Since when has anyones opinion mattered? Whoever is behind that is probably going to get an ear full Smile

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:41 am

Oooh, I have a few suggestions to post hehe

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:01 pm

did the header block change?
it says: Professional Content Management System killing me

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:31 pm

djmaze wrote:

did the header block change?
it says: Professional Content Management System killing me

Isn't that misrepresentation or something lol

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:09 am

I think PHP-Nuke has a new owner!
In the whois information there is a new registrant: Steve Brown from London
(maybe the son from the godfather of soul - James Brown *gg*)

Coldy aka Coldcut Cool