Demise Of The Premier .NET community site

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 18, 2002 @02:04AM from the killing-your-own dept.

Seems like something has horribly gone wrong at ASPFriends.com. The site is being closed as a result of a break down in negotiations with Microsoft over support for funding this developer community forum which has over 73000 members who post over 12 million messages a month regarding MS development. The primary reason for this break down seems to be do with the contract that had to be signed to receive funding. I'm no lawyer and I've not seen the entire contract but it seems like it contains clauses which basically state "at our discretion, with 30 days notice we can terminate this contract and take ownership of your site".

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Now we know... by Alethes · 2002-11-18 02:51 · Score: 1, Troll

where the next 73,000 Microsoft trolls are going to come from for Slashdot. Maybe Taco needs a microsoft.slashdot.org like exists for Apple so all the trolls and flamers can go play together.