Nobody needs "millions of dollars just sitting around." This doesn't imply that the only options are "flushing it down the toilet" or "spend it on re-writing existing, in all likelihood superior, and most of all *free,* software."

Also of note:

-After a 2.3-million-dollar expenditure, there is NO NEW FORUM SOFTWARE, better or worse than SMF 1.1.19, the six-year-old 2009 copy of SMF forum software bitcointalk is currently running. There's no product.
-Better forum software already exists, one example is called SMF 2.0.11. It's the Sept. 2015 update of SMF 1.1.19, the six-year-old 2009 copy of SMF forum software bitcointalk is currently running. It's tested, it works, and you can click here to download it for free.
-In the meantime, bitcointalk is still running the shitty six-year-old 2009 copy of SMF software. And will likely do so for the foreseeable future.

But this is all beside the point. The software is just a byproduct -- flotsam and jetsam -- neither here nor there. You know this as well as I do.