Wow. This is the first I've heard of it, James. I've got more reading to do to get both sides of the story, but on the surface of it, this story really blows.
I'm all for competition, but government funded service competition is a bit rough. Depends on their model however - if it's making money then tax payers may have a long term return in it. If it has no income model, it's questionable. A ----- Original Message ----- From: James McGlinn To: PHP Users Group List Group List Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:23 AM Subject: [phpug] [OT] whynzlive.com Off-topic, but maybe you guys will allow me one OT post every so often? All of the sites I'm about to mention are written in PHP :) Many of you will be aware that back in 2006, seven months after Eventfinder launched, the public sector website NZLive.com started up to compete with us. Yesterday we launched a site at http://whynzlive.com to protest the NZ Government's continued spending on duplicating Eventfinder's services and features. We delivered yet another proposal for co-operation to the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage in March, but have had no response. Instead, the Ministry has issued an RFP to develop features that are obviously copied from Eventfinder. Would you please pass on this email to raise awareness of the Ministry's actions, and follow us on Twitter to show your support? http://twitter.com/whynzlive Kind regards, James McGlinn __________________________________ CTO Eventfinder Limited Suite 106, Heards Building 2 Ruskin Street, Parnell, Auckland 1052 Phone: +649 365 2342 Mobile: +6421 633 234 [email protected] | www.eventfinder.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
