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Comment The value of drying out Open Source networks (Score 0, Offtopic) 106

... and what exactly was the value conquering a 10 years old Open Source project like TWiki using a VC funded company, acquiring the trademark and then locking out all of its contributors? Because that's what Rod did 2008. I tell you: it only had value for a single node/company while other stakeholders were trampled under their feet. Sour grapes? No, live goes on on the Foswiki fork. Let's see 2009.
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Submission + - TWiki.net kicks out all TWiki contributors (wikiring.com)

David Gerard writes: "Ten years ago, Peter Thoeny started the TWiki wiki engine. It attracted many contributors at twiki.org. About a year ago, Thoeny founded the startup twiki.net. On 27th October, twiki.net locked all the other contributors out of twiki.org in an event Thoeny called "the twiki.org relaunch. Here's the IRC meeting log. All the other core developers have now moved to a new project, NextWiki. Is it a sensible move for a venture capital firm that depends on a healthy Open Source community to lock it out?"

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