On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> [ Comments below, in line ]
>
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 at 11:47 am, Robert P. J. Day penned about
> "Re: [vbox-users] Create a new list? Re: Fw: Closing this
> mailing-list"
>
> > because if they don't, there *will* be a mailing list, it will
> > simply end up elsewhere, outside of their jurisdiction. would
> > oracle/sun actually be satisfied with that turn of events?
>
> Hi,
>
> Why should they care one way or another whether it's outside of
> their control. It's not like they exercise some type of control
> over the existing list. I see the existing list as very open.
sorry, i phrased that badly. it's not as if oracle would explicitly
control the list, it's that if *i* was running oracle, i'd prefer that
all that neat community-related activity related to vbox *stayed*
within oracle. it might make no difference to oracle in the end, but
it seems to be amazingly short-sighted of oracle to kill a mailing
list that they now *know* will simply set up shop elsewhere, and not
under the oracle umbrella. if you were responsible for a sizable
company like that, would *you* be pleased that an admittedly small but
active user community moved their activity elsewhere? *i* wouldn't.
rday
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