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In lugnet.general, Kevin Zwicker writes:
> Hello,
>
> **Warning: Hypothetical situation only!**
>
> I was speaking with a friend last night and we were wondering what would
> happen if TLC bought the rights to Lugnet?
>
> Given:
>
> 1. The recurring examples of TLC staff refering customers to Lugnet,
>
> 2. TLC personnel using the Lugnet database as an internal tool for research,
>
> 3. Many succesful enterprises have been bought by or merged with their
> competition (The Hotmail/Microsoft example comes to mind),
>
> 4. That practically every Lego-related webpage (most of the big ones anyway)
> on the net are linked to Lugnet,
>
> 5. Lugnet has succeded (where the official Lego site has not) in becoming
> the center (I know there are others, 1000.steine comes to mind) of the Lego
> Community on the Web.
>
> How long before TLC decides they want in?
>
> Say, tomorrow morning, TLC went to Todd and Suzanne with a check for 10
> million dollars (Hypothetical number) and said we wish to purchase the
> rights to your website. How would we, the community, react?
>
> I wish to reiterate that this post is *hypothetical* and was not written to
> start flame wars or to demonize anybody, but to simply ask what if...?
>
> KZ
> #142
Bad, methinks, for us LUGNETers. I think that the level of freedom and
topic range would be more exposed to censor. I don't think that LUGNET
should EVER be sold, and I'm willing to put my money forth just to keep it
the way it is. LUGNET is like a private publication, and if that means they
(Todd and Suz) need to charge a annual subscription rate to keep it that
way, as long as they were to be reasonable, I'd pay for my use of LUGNET.
I'd say that would be fair. I like my LUGNET privately opperated by Todd
and Suz.
2 cents,
Aaron
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