New site very simular to LQ
 

hi i was crawling the web looking for new sites and stuff and found one called windows-questions.com which sounds simular to linuxquestions but without the .org and with a -

looks ok again very simular layout to LQ but not many users lol

cheers

It does look like someone's copying the categories from here (Windows-* categories are identical to the ones here). If the mods of this forum are so inclined, I'm sure they could get the forum shut down by reporting it to the web space host.

Does that mean there will be a multitude of trolls posting anti-windows posts about how windows sux?

Hmm, 8 articles and 3 members - we're not exactly threatened. To be honest, my view is that if they aren't in competition with us, so who cares? There are a glut of Windows forums out there - unless you have one run by a bunch of MVPs they don't offer anything that any of the others don't.

I mean, the admin says he has tried Linux and found it too hard. ;)

Imitation is meant to be the sincerest form of flattery. Their name is not easily findable (windowsquestions vs windows-questions). Good luck to them, I say.

And I have moved this to WS&F as Jeremy has a better chance of seeing it there.

aimen to that bad domain, noware to be seen on google and barley no posts lol no threat at all!

The admin there actually mentions us in the site announcement ;) The topics are a bit similar, but I can't see that as any problem at all.

--jeremy

As far as I see it, it's his website, he can do what he wants with it, he paid for the hosting. Let's leave it at that unless he violates any international laws or infringes on copyright or such stuff.

I can't see it as a problem either, I just thought I'd point out some irony from the response headers:
Frameset host: Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix)
Forum host: Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)

I wonder why it isn't IIS?

Probably because he isn't stupid :) Anyway, as we all know, Jeremy and David do all of the coding for this site on a Win ME box, so we don't have to be overly fixed in our OSes ;)

When you cant come up with your own thoughts - you can be lead around by another.
An OS(using the term loosely) comes to mind when I think of no freedom of thought. ;)

I guess they need to ride your coat-tails beacause LQ does an excellant job.

I'm not sure about David, but it's Windows 3.11 all the way for me ;)

--jeremy

hello everyone I am a newbie here :D

that website is lot more similar to ACM online's Electronic board "online-judge.uva.es/board/" . :D

But DOS 6.22 rox. :D

The only thing that struck me about the other site (it does not seem to me to be a mirror copy of LQ) is in regards to the name. It may be possible (IANAL) someone could force you to discard the windowsquestions link if you do not defend it now. It is my understanding the law has a use it or lose it attitude to such things.

But we do defend it. At least every other month we get a request for "a Windows forum" and each time we point them to www.windowsquestions.org - and as long as Jeremy pays for the name, it's safe.

the solution to windows problems? install linux! idiot problems? ummmm...

Jeremy owns the domain. There is "prior art" windowsquestions.org was registered before the guy thought of the forum. It's not like jeremy registered
*insert tech unsavy company here*.com or anything.

titanium_geek