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

Oh you took the easy way out! Windows 3.0 with the multimedia kit here!

Yes jeremy, you are really evil with all of that sneaky registering windowsquestions.org 'only to lure innocent people who want an answer to their Windows question back to linuxquestions.org' :rolleyes:

That whole forum seems a bit strange... He calls himself 'your Admin' (for example, at one point, he says 'Enjoy your Administrator' which I found quite amusing).

From the site:
What is swaering?

linuxfan huh? ok...who here is messing w/ them?

Another site
 

There's also another site called windows-questions.org which looks like it's been around for a while. It also has the same look as the .com version, so maybe this is the out-of-the-box look for some Windows bb software.

Sadly, a brief search for "linux" on the .org site turned up results where:

• Windows users are being nice to Linux users
• Linux users are being jerks to Windows users: search for "linux" on that page and then read the next post as well

This sort of thing is despicable & possibly illegal, and it only gives Linux a bad name.

Moy

Good links :) I hope that no one from here is trolling the boards - that wouldn't be very nice now, would it?

'linuxfan' appears to have been. However, I do think that the owner of that site was asking for it. In his first ever post on the forums, he starts raving about how LQ is evil, unfair and misleading.
I guess that 'linuxfan' must have earned the admin's respect though, since he replied to the troll, ending the post with 'Thanks. You’re Admin'. Strangely, that troll thread is still open, I would've closed it by now (here it is).

Yeah, I'd've closed it too, that's the sort of question which should be asked ofline.

Haha, I'd like to see their hit log. :D Honestly, who would post on a forum with such strange posts?

*trying to be nice*

I guess the guy saw LQ and thought WOW! what a great site. I wonder if there is a similar great site for windows. (there is a special community thing with linux- but that's for another story) He goes to www.windowsquestions.org and find it points here- kindof disapointing I guess. So he starts windows-questions, liberally using the same good ideas as LQ.

Maybe I'm just biased, but I think linux users are nicer, more community driven (like the software) Hey, on LQ you could be answered by a guy who actually codes for the program you are having issues with, or maybe a distro maintainer, or some guy who writes the docos. The possibilities are endless, because of the open nature of the linux community.

titanium_geek