Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki

In a blog posting, Michale Daum covers a hostile takeover of the TWiki project. "Yesterday, 2008-10-27: 21:00 GMT, just a minute before the regular TWiki release meeting, the company TWIKI.NET announced unilaterally that the best for the TWiki.org project would be for them to take over governance. With it comes a complete lock down of the community site. From that minute on, all long-time contributors have lost access to their code. Counter-reaction: the community has left the building, leaving TWIKI.NET without a contributing community. Question: is it a sensible move for a venture capital firm that depends on a healthy Open Source community to lock it out?" (Thanks to Francesco Lovergine and Rahul Sundaram).

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