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Just for grins I called them, from the number at the top of the page. The whole site magnifies so poorly in Konqueror 3.5.8 that I never noticed the e-address at the bottom. Tried to voice a polite general complaint about copying w/o credit -- I couldn't find any of my posts there w/ a Google site search. The lady who answered listened politely. She said she does not maintain the website.
This is odd: the majority of the threads that I just looked at have the question posted but not an answer, even though the thread here on LinuxQuestions has an answer. I'm guessing that as these are recent threads, they may just be rather tardy in getting the answers onto their site, but they may be using questions from here to 'seed' their site and give it the illusion of an active community (albeit one that doesn't actually answer the questions).
I just don't see why anybody would do this. Seems bizarre and counterproductive, but I am starting to include the words LinuxQuestions in my answers, just to see whether that causes them any difficulty.
Good idea, but I have seen member intro threads they have ripped off - where the new member says "happy to be joining LQ"! There are a few question posts where there is an answer post, but it's inconsistent. In their links list (to the left of the page) there is a link to LQ, so they may feel that they have done their bit.
Regardless, they should be at least attributing LQ (and linking to the original threads) and they should also have cleared this with Jeremy first.
In my opiniont someone simply wants to look bigger than he is. I.e. site is talking about "Opensource solutions", but it might be run by one person. It looks like site is 3 months old. And stealing content might bring more hits. So it all seems to be pretty logical.
The domain name owner also advertises his "business" as "Open Source Solutions": Clay Wilson, 635 Greene Drive, Lebanon, TN, 615-310-1601. At the same address is also another business located called "Wilson Motorsports" whose telephone number is also used by another business called "IT Solutions" of Hermitage, TN. The fun part is that while free.*guin claims to be in the computer repair business some ^a.*jackson$, registered with an email address at that same domain, has recently been asking rather simple questions in some fora that shouldn't quite match a reputable, knowledgable computer repair person, heh.
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