Hugh D. Hyatt - Slashdot User

Submission + - LinuxDevices.com Vanishes From the Web 1

Submitted by __aajbyc7391 on Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:11PM

__aajbyc7391 writes: Embedded Linux pioneer LinuxDevices.com departed from the web earlier this week. The site became a collateral casualty of the aquisition of eWEEK by Quinstreet in February 2012, as part of a bundle of Ziff Davis Enterprise assets. Quinstreet immediately fired all the LinuxDevices staffers and ceased maintaining the site. A few days ago, the site's plug was finally pulled and it is now gone from the Web, save for a few pages on the WayBack Machine. For more than a decade, LinuxDevices played a pivotal role in serving and fostering an emerging embedded Linux ecosystem, and it was well respected by the embedded Linux community at the time it was acquired by QuinStreet. Unfortunately, the site did not mesh well with QuinStreet's B2B market focus. Fortunately, its spirit remains alive and well at LinuxGizmos.com, a site recently launched by LinuxDevices founder Rick Lehrbaum.

Comment McBride's open letter (Score 1) 770

by Hugh D. Hyatt on Friday December 05, 2003 @01:10PM (#7639682) Attached to: McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights

The letter says in part:

Despite the raw emotions, however, the issue is clear: do you support copyrights and ownership of intellectual property as envisioned by our elected officials in Congress and the European Union, or do you support "free" - as in free from ownership - intellectual property envisioned by the Free Software Foundation, Red Hat and others? There really is no middle ground.

There sure is middle ground! It's what we have today: each producer (in theory) gets to choose whether their work will be copyrighted or open. (I say 'in theory' because so much of what individuals produce today is legally 'owned' by corporations.)

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