site_removal

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:59:41PM +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:28 -0400, David Bandel wrote:
> > Meanwhile, I could post
> > more stuff, but have no idea how much interest there is in some of the
> > things I've been working on (like IPv6, madwifi stuff, etc.). 
> 
> I have a somewhat different problem. I thought I'd have time to
> experiment and contribute this year, but things have just gotten busier
> for me, and my Linux journey is now taking me to different places. The
> technical aspects are not so critical for me now so much as the business
> and strategy issues. For example, when does it make sense for a SMB to
> make a switch from Linux to Microsoft (this question, I discovered, is a
> lot more complex than just the anti-piracy mechanisms in Vista or the
> evils of proprietary software)? How much to switch over and what to
> leave well enough alone (for legacy and political reasons)? What are the
> real security issues, etc.?

Pascal,

Obviously, these are not the sort of questions that lend themselves to
the SxS format. But, they are great fodder for the list (and IRC).
 
> I'm not even sure if this is the correct forum to be discussing these
> things, much less posting about it on the SxS, because of its
> inflammatory nature among other things (notwithstanding the hoakum
> stuff, which actually gets in the way of a meaningful debate). Maybe it
> is an indication of the pace of progress in technology.

This list is an excellent forum for these topics because there are people
here that have in the past, are now, or will in the future wrestle with 
these issues.

> Maybe instead of deprecating the site, we could decide to re-define it
> and what can go on it?

We can certainly add categories (and modify existing ones) as we get new
submissions.

Kurt