Re: [LIG] Open Source Community Hall of shame?

Kingsly John <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.general
Organization Kingsly John Inc. :-)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
+++ VaibhaV Sharma [2006-03-13 11:14:18]:

> 
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
> 
> >On 13/03/06, VaibhaV Sharma <vaibhav-Eu1RwsQd+Wna6/ykmkUfTgC/[email protected]> wrote:
> >>One fine day, the site gets updated with various "hardware and
> >>services for sale" advertisements by the company that started the
> >>site and the site heading still says it is a "community website". On
> >
> >Well, running the site must be costing this company something. So why
> >not? With the evidence at hand, I find nothing wrong in the situation,
> >or anything to shame this company for.
> 
> 
> Why call it a community site to start with and then convert it to an  
> online store and still call it a community website? Who gets the profit?

Pretty much the same thing that happened with http://linux-bangalore.org/ ?

From the kind of reactions there were to what happened with LB, I can assure
you that the "community" doesn't care as long they get what they want.

Atleast the pbx.in guys seem to be open about the whole thing.

Kingsly
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