The original KiCad domain name (kicad-pcb.org) was recently sold to an unnamed third party that is not affiliated with the KiCad Project or members of the KiCad Development Team. This sale was unexpected and may pose a risk to KiCad users. The new owners may simply post advertisements or (worst-case scenario) they may host malicious versions of the KiCad software for download.
The reason this has happened is not a single person failure. It’s the same story as with uncountable other community endeavours: organizational affairs are a dumpster fireOk, but as an organization we already expected this and took action in 2020 in partnership with DigiKey.
but all of them avoid any formalities, signing any agreements, clarifying obligations and rights.
That also happened to me, the effect of which is: I drive a car that is in half owned by a dead person and can’t be sold, new plates can’t be acquired, insurance companies are unhappy and so on.
This costs a lawyer, lawyers are not free or cheap or in many cases, even knowledgeable adequately. People do these projects in their free time.It costs nothing. I don’t see, how a lawyer would be involved.
This is not a problem in usual US law, either the surviving member has rights of survivorship (spousal or other forms) which is an automatic transfer to full ownership, or it has to be resolved through probate of the dead person's estate, however, not a unsolvable issue, just delays.Have I said there is no rightful heir in this case? This doesn’t make things any simpler; quite opposite, as it adds three more people to the equation in which they should’ve never appear.
When the Cleveland Browns football team was sold and moved to Baltimore, someone apparently forget to buy the name too. Thus, we now have the Baltimore Ravens and still have a team called the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dick is correct. I dropped the ball on this after our last email as it
just fell off of my radar with everything that is going on. Mea culpa.
In a recent developer mailing list post the current project leader Wayne Stambaugh admitted thatQuoteDick is correct. I dropped the ball on this after our last email as it
just fell off of my radar with everything that is going on. Mea culpa.
So, saying that D.H refused is not the whole truth, although what he did doesn't seem to be fair, either. (What Seth originally wrote in the KiCad forum is still technically true; they "attempted unsuccessfully".)
Please, edit your posts above if they have personal attacks.
In a recent developer mailing list post the current project leader Wayne Stambaugh admitted thatQuoteDick is correct. I dropped the ball on this after our last email as it
just fell off of my radar with everything that is going on. Mea culpa.
So, saying that D.H refused is not the whole truth, although what he did doesn't seem to be fair, either. (What Seth originally wrote in the KiCad forum is still technically true; they "attempted unsuccessfully".)
Please, edit your posts above if they have personal attacks.
Monkeh: you are quick to judge people’s moral conduct. But if you do… where is your source of information that it was Hollenbeck that sold the domain?
Monkeh: you are quick to judge people’s moral conduct. But if you do… where is your source of information that it was Hollenbeck that sold the domain?
He owned and controlled the domain, who do you think sold it?From what I understand, it was his employer that owned it. I may be missing some information, but that’s how the official blog entry presents the situation.
He owned and controlled the domain, who do you think sold it?From what I understand, it was his employer that owned it. I may be missing some information, but that’s how the official blog entry presents the situation.
I am aware of that. Two of those positions (CTO, founder) are not relevant. Third indicates he’s in charge of running the business, which is not the same as being the owner of company’s assets.
I just reported this thread:
A request for this topic to be pinned to the top of the KiCad section, and with a stronger title. https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/10/Avoid-links-to-former-kicad-domain/ (https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/10/Avoid-links-to-former-kicad-domain/)
@Anthocyanina
Can you change the title into something stronger like: Avoid-the-former-kicad-domain
I just did a search for the old domain name on this forum and there are over 100 posts with links to that *&^%$#@!.
I'm not sure if a global "search and replace" by someone with rights to do so would be a good way to "fix" this.
As an alternative I can spend an hour or 2 to send a PM to all posters with links to that *&^%$#@! name with a request to change it.
Does anyone have a better idea maybe?
$someFunc ['db_query']('', '
UPDATE {db_prefix}settings
SET variable = {string:URL}
WHERE variable = {string:deprecated_URL}',
array(
'deprecated_URL' => $deprecated_URL,
'URL' => $URL,
)
);
Does anyone have a better idea maybe?