you hit the nail at the had ;-)
Am 06.02.2007 um 13:31 schrieb Roland Voegtli:
Nothing about this decision is of benefit to the RS
community or RS itself.
I don't think closing the REAL hosted list is such a big thing.
It's pretty easy
to run a independent list, and this is in fact already under way.
What I do have a hard time to swallow is a) the way it has been
communicated by
a marketing manager and b) the fact that they not simply close the
list due to
resources they want to free. They argued that the answers and
knowledge on
this list are lost to those on the forum.
To me this says: We want your knowledge, your free time and help
and we want that
for free. But here we come and force you to give us that free gift
on a channel that
we decided is best for us, not for you.
This is rather arrogant. I would even disagree with having any way
for REAL to
get the expertise from the new NUG list into their realm/forum.
They are not helping
build a community, but they try to suck the goodies our of the
mailing list.
So, to me it's ok if they close the list. There are alternatives
for the independent
community. But then, REAL should avoid trying to steal the benefits
for their own business
of such a independent, not REAL-supported community . This is
really a turn off.
Meaning: I don't see the need to write to Geoff. Unless they try to
steal the
expertise and free time from independent community builders.
We should GPL all the messages, just like they did with the MySQL
plugin...
;-)
cheers
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