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LinuxDevices.com Vanishes From the Web

Posted by Unknown on from the vh1-behind-the-website dept.

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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  1. Re:Why simply shut it down? Why not give it back? by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sadly as somebody who dealt with too damned many of those corps when I tried to bring a way for those old shareware titles to be played on modern systems their attitude basically is "If I can't make a shitload of money off it I'll destroy it, because if somebody figures out how to make a cent on it I'll look stupid".

    Its a damned shame but at least from what I saw that is the attitude, they would rather something die out than let anybody possibly make a single cent off of it.

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  2. Quinstreet lost LinuxDevices archive .. by dgharmon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Despite any recent updates, the vast LinuxDevices news archive continued to serve as a valuable archive of embedded Linux information, history, and memorabilia; but earlier this week, the plug was pulled and LinuxDevices disappeared from the Web"

    Quinstreet could restore a lot of goodwill by donating the LinuxDevices news archive to linuxgizmos.com

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  3. Re:Why simply shut it down? Why not give it back? by gandhi_2 · · 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.

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