LinuxDevices.com Vanishes From the Web 69
DeviceGuru 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."
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Quinstreet lost LinuxDevices archive .. (Score:4, Interesting)
Quinstreet could restore a lot of goodwill by donating the LinuxDevices news archive to linuxgizmos.com [linuxgizmos.com]
Re:Why simply shut it down? Why not give it back? (Score:3, Interesting)
1. Start something.
2. Get bought.
3. Jump ship and start the same thing under a different name.
3a. Let old thing get burned. Waste time and money of whoever bought it.
4. Profit. !
The dude should build up LinuxGizmos till QuinStreet falls for it again. Just hire all the people who get fired each time.