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Re: [ga] The ALAC has a new website
- To: sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [ga] The ALAC has a new website
- From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:11:50 -0800 (PST)
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>From the Nov.3 minutes of the ALAC conference call:
"The ALAC?s new website is ready to be constructed. We
are waiting for ICANN?s General Counsel?s office to
release the contract for the website developer."
I have to wonder how much they paid for these "Notes
from the Bottom Up"? Perhaps they'll let us know when
they send out an announcement on their "6500+ email
announce list". Golly, all of that outreach, and
still no one wants to buy into the ALAC...
--- sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Allow me to add a few technical comments on their
> site, plus one legal
> remark:
>
> 1. The 'webmaster' for icannalac.org is obviously
> not well-versed in CSS,
> nor in the use of the opensource Mambo CMS the site
> is built with; so much
> for 'technical expertise'... but even more
> disturbing:
>
> 2. The new ALAC site (icannalac.org) is in violation
> of the GNU GPL terms
> of use for the Mambo CMS. On the Mambo CMS site it
> is explicitly stated
> that "You may NOT alter the license and you must NOT
> alter the copyright."
> (See:
>
http://help.mamboserver.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=62)
> The icannalac.org site is in clear violation of this
> condition, the ALAC
> 'webmaster' removed the copyright notice from the
> footer which ought to
> read: " Miro International Pty Ltd. © 2000 - 2005
> All rights reserved.
> Mambo is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL
> License." This is
> actually a fraud, just like the entire ALAC itself
> (i.e. trying to pass
> itself off as legitimate and distinct).
>
> So, we know that the ALAC is lacking technical
> proficiency and...
> scruples. What more needs be said? Shame!
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>
> >> comments anyone?
> >
> > Yup - the ALAC has clearly lost its way very
> badly. It's recited purpose
> > on the bottom of the web page raises it to the
> level of a body that makes
> > recommendations on questions of ICANN policy. The
> ALAC seems to have
> > forgotten that they are merely an interim body and
> that it's primary
> > purpose is to construct ICANN's byzantine ALAC
> structures and
> > organizations, a job that has spectacularly
> failed.
> >
> > --karl--
> >
> >
>
>
>
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