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[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Alex Heizer wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Actually, the Jive software was donated by the Jive company for use on
> the "support.typo3.org" URL. However, since Michelle had left the
> community over a year ago, and both she and I stopped offering support
> and hosting of the forum, anyone in the community could have contacted
> the Jive company to work out keeping the software for the community. As
> part of the agreement with Jive, we couldn't legally support the forum
> since we were no longer part of the community. At the time, Michelle had
> to use her typo3.org email address to work with Jive, so once she had
> left the community her agreement with them also ended. However, they
> were happy to donate the software to the community.
> 
> Since there was much resistance in the community at the time for using
> the forum in the first place, that perhaps may have been a bigger reason
> why a different path was chosen once Michelle and I stopped donating our
> bandwidth for the Jive software.
> 
> Also, despite Michael continuing to misrepresent a private company as
> being involved in us donating our time and bandwidth, it was Michelle
> and I who donated our time and effort to providing the forum as a
> service to the community as individuals. We'd appreciate it if you could
> give the right credit in your article, even though Michael apparently
> can't do that after we correct him every time he misrepresents us.

Hi Alex,

I am sorry to hear there are some bad vibes around about this. There was not to
much focus on support.typo3.org anyway. That is a thing that has changed. I am
glad that work is being done on a TYPO3 solution. That seems positive to me.


gRTz

ben
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