Re: Problems with importing GEDCOM file

On 14/5/23 19:01, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 14 May 2023 17:33:15 +0800
> Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Bret,
> 
>> On 14/5/23 15:00, Brad Rogers wrote:
>>> Customer lock-in.
>>>    
>> ?
> 
> By adding their own non-standard (IOW, proprietary) fields to their
> GEDCOM exports, interesting.com endeavour to make it harder for you to
> transition to another piece of software.  It's quite common in the field
> of commerce.
> 
> Despite their apparent openness, interesting.com are a commercial
> operation incorporated in New York State, USA.
> 

Thank you for the clarification.

I had not realised the connection with a commercial entity, and, I was 
not previously aware of a connection with any entity name 
(interesting.com), other than wikitree.

It is an unfortunate connection, and, it reminds me of ancestry.com (as 
I later found, is owned by blackstone, an asset stripping, or, 
otherwise, malevolent investment company), after taking over rootsweb, 
shutting down the free genealogy mailing lists at rootsweb (about 56,000 
mailing lists, administered by volunteers, like me),  a couple of months 
over three years ago (about 02 March 2020), with the action of 
ancestry.com, in shutting down the rootsweb mailing lists, being like 
hitting a man "in the ghoulies", as hard as possible, with a baseball 
bat. Genealogical research, all around the world, has still not 
recovered from that damage, and, probably will not recover from that damage.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............



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