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Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki

blog.wikiring.com — Yesterday, 2008-10-27: 21:00 GMT, just a minute before the regular TWiki release meeting, the company TWIKI.NET announced unilaterally that the best for the TWiki.org project would be for them to take over governance. With it comes a complete lock down of the community site.

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  • cscharabaruk, on 10/29/2008, -0/+2Obviously Thoeny never heard of the XFree86 fiasco. If he had, perhaps he wouldn't be doing this. There are some strong parallels between the X.Org fork from XFree86 when they went all crazy, and this situation. Now, almost nobody ever uses XFree86, but instead use the X.Org version.

    Thoeny has pretty much just governed himself out of reality and relevancy. Fail.

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