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 14:14:46]:

> 
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Kingsly John wrote:
> 
> >>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/ ?
> 
> 
> I thought about that and it seems so, but it is not exactly the same.  

How is it different ? 

> I don't want to open a can of worms here for the discussion would go  
> to tangents which would result in nothing.

We aren't exactly on a deadline for world peace here! :-)

> >Atleast the pbx.in guys seem to be open about the whole thing.
> 
> Yup. He says "I never said it was NOT FOR PROFIT".

And yet you feel pbx.in deserves a mention in a hall of shame, but not so in
the case of a formally registered not-for-profit society being clandestinely
hijacked without any notification to the public ?

Kingsly
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