11-01-2005, 09:10 AM
It's quite simple, let freebasic.net be the FB home with forums, tutorials and such and qbasic.com be the QB one (besides qbasicnews, qb45 and such, obviously :P), without one pretending the other doesn't exist, like the current "official" qbasic.com forum does - that's the reason i didn't add any links to qbasic.com, other than its living-dead state that lasted for years.
Without QB, FreeBASIC would never exist and without FB, QuickBASIC may would become a museum figure or a toy for emulator aficionados.
Both sites link to each other and we are done.. The FB site popularity is coming closer to qbasic one (see alexa.com), nobody will "steal" users from nobody.
Every single person that contributed to FB came or used to be from the QB community, that's not like we created a commercial alternative just to milk QB, spamming it all around. The whole project has over 100K lines of BASIC and C code, i would like to see the "don't join the dark side" people doing a better contribution to QB, besides playing the poor victim or the crazy terrorist one. Dunno, create a text-mode QB-IDE clone, help making FB more compatible, just bitching in forums won't help nada.
Without QB, FreeBASIC would never exist and without FB, QuickBASIC may would become a museum figure or a toy for emulator aficionados.
Both sites link to each other and we are done.. The FB site popularity is coming closer to qbasic one (see alexa.com), nobody will "steal" users from nobody.
Every single person that contributed to FB came or used to be from the QB community, that's not like we created a commercial alternative just to milk QB, spamming it all around. The whole project has over 100K lines of BASIC and C code, i would like to see the "don't join the dark side" people doing a better contribution to QB, besides playing the poor victim or the crazy terrorist one. Dunno, create a text-mode QB-IDE clone, help making FB more compatible, just bitching in forums won't help nada.
ew FreeBASIC forums: http://www.freebasic.net/forum/index.php