BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website 189
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from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.
from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has announced their intention to dispose of the H2G2 website, originally founded by Douglas Adams. This comes as part of an initiative by the BBC to cut their online spending by 25%. 'BBC Online will be reorganised into five portfolios of "products." All parts of BBC Online have to fit with these. Over the past year all areas of the site have been reviewed to see where, and if, they fit. Sadly ... H2G2 does not fit in the new shape of BBC Online. 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 choice of words, but what is means is that we'll be looking for proposals from others to take on the running of H2G2.' One option under discussion is a community buyout."
Sickening! (Score:3, Interesting)
How about just giving it to the man's family instead of trying to milk ahem I mean monetise it or "dispose" of it?
Copyright seriously needs to be amended to disallow shelving and destruction of a work.
Thing is Adam's vision was fully implemented with (Score:3, Interesting)
A good old-fashioned website (Score:5, Interesting)
And the search? Curiously, the article titled "Earth" is the tenth result for the search term "Earth".
Gutted. Absolutely gutted. (Score:5, Interesting)