I guess im a little disappointed

Discussion in 'Site Feedback' started by buffys, Jul 5, 2003.

  1. buffys Registered Loser Registered Senior Member

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    Let me back up for a second, Id been having trouble getting my head around the ongoing debate about the sale of acquisition as it pertains to open source. The legalities of who own what and what is ethical when using open source blah, blah, blah. Too much stuff i know very little about so i figured id start a thread and ask a question straight away that (for me at least) would put a lot of the discussion into perspective.

    I asked - "If i were a software designer, could i use acquisition's code as freely as the code acquisition itself was built on to make my own version or would it cost me?"

    thats it, i started getting a few responses and suddenly after the moderator commented and removed one of the posts, it was locked. Is this a taboo question or something? I was very respectful and asked a question regarding acq, so why lock it? I wasn't suspicious before but this seems really odd.

    When a question (appropriate to the forum and politely discussed) gets shut down after only a day it leaves me a little, well ... disappointed.

    This post isn't to get a bunch of people to jump up chanting "dave the tyrant" or anything of the like, i m just looking for a reasonable explanation.

    thnx
     
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  3. Porfiry Nomad Registered Senior Member

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    I lock/remove any threads that are not appropriate in a user support forum. Source-level questions have no relevance to users. You are advised to contact me via email: davew@xlife.org
     
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  5. buffys Registered Loser Registered Senior Member

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    Porfiry,

    ok, ill buy that, you think that is a discussion for another place, fair enough. but im left wondering why a legitimate post (as legitimate as any other in that thread anyway) was edited out before you locked it. I mean, tossing a thread out is one thing and locking it is another but why edit AND lock it?

    Im just having trouble getting what was concerning you so much about those links. Granted, Ive only had a short glance at the links provided in the post you removed but they seem to be pretty standard and appropriate to my initial question, which you did not throw away. so, why toss part of it?

    I swear, im really not trying to bust your balls here, it just doesn't make sense. How can i not leave with the conclusion that they are (for whatever reason) sites you don't want forum users to see? Which, of course, will only make me examine them all the more closely.

    I mean c'mon, ive seen blatant links to hardcore porn stay up longer than the one you pulled from my thread. Whats in them that you opposed so strongly?



    confused.
     
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  7. Porfiry Nomad Registered Senior Member

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    I was censoring the user, not the post.
     

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