[Foundation-l] H2G2 "to be disposed of"

[David Gerard]

On 24 January 2011 16:09, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173
> Anything worth salvaging?


Is it even under a CC-ish licence?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/forums/A639056/conversation/view/F77636/T8018187

"However, H2G2 is unusual. It is a pre-existing community that the BBC
brought into its fold, not a community that the BBC set up from
scratch. So rather than closing it, we've decided to explore another
option. This process has been referred to elsewhere as the "disposal"
of H2G2. I'll admit this is not a great choices of words, but what is
means is that we'll be looking for proposals from others to take on
the running of H2G2."

The actual machine it runs on is a years-out-of-warranty Dell server
running Windows 2000. Not sure if it still has an outboard USB disk in
the back. What I mean is, it's ridiculous levels of bespoke and
already running on something that should rightly be a discard.


- d.