Nice to see you posting here Steve. Interesting to watch the various
responses and where it lead. More interesting to see so many people active
here! I thought this list was all but dead.
On 23/12/2013 8:03 AM, "Nkansah Rexford" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm out of this thread. I hope the others do same?
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Jeffrey Peters <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Volunteers aren't farm animals.  They cannot be poached."
>>
>> Are you trying to start a fight? Seriously, what do you intend with
>> something like that which serves nothing but to inflame a situation with no
>> real justification behind it.
>>
>> Poaching has been a long used term by recruiters and employers. We do not
>> need our boards trolled by people who only intend to take people away from
>> contributing and take them to their own projects.
>>
>> You, yourself, have such a project. You, yourself, makes money off of
>> promoting yourself as is evident in the website you promote with each email
>> and the material you try to sell.
>>
>> That is a major Conflict of Interest and I hope people realize just how
>> bad that is.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Steve Foerster <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Volunteers aren't farm animals.  They cannot be poached.  They are
>>> donors just like any other, who supply effort rather than money. Donors of
>>> effort certainly are not resources belonging to financial donors, and it is
>>> certainly not theft when a volunteer chooses to spend effort on one project
>>> rather than another.
>>>
>>> But that's not even the most amazing thing.  That would be that you're
>>> seriously criticizing that I used the email address from the domain where I
>>> have my personal blog, just because somewhere on there is a link to a
>>> different project than this one.  What does one have to do to avoid your
>>> ridiculous accusations of promotion -- use an anonymous remailer?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:34:20 -0500
>>> From: Jeffrey Peters <[email protected]>
>>> To: Mailing list for Wikiversity <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Are "solved problems" suitable for
>>> Wikiversity?
>>>
>>> It is not about license. It is about volunteers. If you poach from
>>> Wikiversity, you should be banned. It is that simple. Our donors spend
>>> money on resources like this list. You are stealing our donors resources.
>>> That is theft.
>>>
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