The Wordpress and Mullenweg story popped up recently, and then just this morning, I read about Perforce and Puppet, where it sounds like Perforce took over the Slack community of Puppet.

The final comment in the Mastodon post was on point:

It seems like takeovers for profit (like the IRC kerfuffle a while back -- I can't even remember the old server name) don't work. Are the lawyers taking over? Or is this just Chaos Theory/Entropy throwing us around a bit?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re: When Communities gets taken over
by choroba (Cardinal) on Oct 15, 2024 at 12:59 UTC
    > I can't even remember the old server name

    It was freenode versus libera.

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      Ah! Thank you. And I can remember thinking, wow, are all of these people going to reassemble on a new server? But they did. Entire communities upped stakes and moved to the new place. Boom, gone.

      Well, MariaDB popped up once MySQL went away, and that seems to have gone well -- I'm using it on a project right now, and it's great.

      Alex / talexb / Toronto

      Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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