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Subject:	Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:53:44 GMT
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<snip> > But if a developer creates a really cool module, and the LEGOFan.net • system > administrators are some jerks that will not put his module into the • central > site, he has all the code and data needed to set up a competing and (due • to his > new module) much cooler site. <snip> It sounds like anyone can take the entire contents of LEGOFan.net and create their own version. This doesn't sound right to me. I understand that the server side code to display the contents of the site will be open source. Yes, I can download a copy of that and run it on my server. The content, on the other hand, is a different matter. Does this mean that all the content that will be added to the LEGOFan.net site will be "open source"? That doesn't sound right. So what this means is you can get a copy of the source to run your own site but you will have to start from scratch with new content. That's not really competing. Is anybody going to "compete" with the millions of pictures on brickshelf? Is anybody going to compete with the millions of posts to lugnet? Well, maybe. There's that whole "build a better mousetrap" thing and all. Maybe if a new site pops up and has way cooler features, LEGOFan.net will just be a memory (along with brickshelf, lugnet, etc.). Abe

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		Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
(...) That's also exactly what I wrote. (...) Why? It will really push the group operating LEGOFan.net to keep doing their best. Isn't that good? (...) Why? (...) That's what I wrote. LEGOFan.net will of course not be able to force other sites to do (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)

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		Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) It will not happen. We will still have to have a competent group of system administrators checking if new modules are up to par, before they can go into the central LEGOFan.net site. But if a developer creates a really cool (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)

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