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Oobles · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:40 am Post subject: Questions about sale.

As mentioned in news.. if you've got any questions. I'll answer what I can.

Oobles.

pdc · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:01 am Post subject:

Will the forums be going?

It seems to me that PS2dev.org is completely profit-free and a real open/community effort.

Do you know what will become of the site and what guarantees there are from the 'company' about it's future?

Edit: Also, who holds (exclusive?) access to the all the forum posts/data after the sale?

rinco · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:25 am Post subject:

will the new company provide an sdk for the playstation l33t?

Neil Stevens · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 79 Location: California

Could you make a tarball of the CVS repository available, just in case?

LionX · Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 61

damit, i dont like ths.

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:12 pm Post subject:

People will never learn :P

ooPo · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject:

I retain copyright control over all forum content. I'm currently working on a deal to merge it into the ps2ownz website for a cut of their advertising income.

These funds will be used to help purchase a PS3 devkit and license for use by the homebrew community. Hopefully we can start releasing games under the 'ps3ownz' label in under a year from now.

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

ooPo · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject:

Per the agreement, only a copy of the forum user information is being sold to the new owners. Again, I retain copyright control over the content itself.

Re-read the contract, bucko.

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject:

I for one am a bit disappointed at the suddenness of all of this. But I think we all owe Oobles a debt for making this site into what it had become.

Neil Stevens · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 79 Location: California

Stupid time zones. Stupid international date line.

I swear, I should just get off the internet on this day every year. There's just no useful information available, heh.

pixel · Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 791

Can we expect getting some shares ? Huh ? Huh ?
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Panther · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

(Edit)
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Good ........, but I ..........!
You guys should ............ that .............. is the ..............!!
After all, would any of you here ........... Oobles ........... a thing??? I think he would, in such a case, ........... the web site ............ the community. Don't you think so??

Clever guys can fill in the blanks by themselves. I have been asked to "plz edt", you know... :)

jabberwock · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Netherlands

@panther, you spoiler...i hoped no one would post that kind of remark....pleaz edit...

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject:

Perhaps the joke is on those who thought they could perpetuate Oobles' little fun. ;)

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

Panther · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

IMHO, it was too obvious not to figure it out... :)

etx · Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Detroit

Heh, I'm sure the new owners will be great. ;)

mrbrown · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 1536

ooPo · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:19 am Post subject:

Come on, brown... admit you were fooled and stop trying to blame it on other people. :)

Oobles · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

Thanks for everyone for playing along and forum ops for taking their part. Yes, it was as clear as day that it was an April fools day joke. :)

Ofcourse the first part about me not having *much* to do with ps2dev is still true. But its been like that for a while now already. I'm currently working on an open source license to release Argot and Colony with. Following that I'll be committing the main ps2dev.org web site to CVS. Its built on that software.

The best thing is that ps2dev doesn't need any individual to keep the site running anymore. It is a real community effort these days. If something was to really change that I couldn't be the admin for the site, I'd organise someone from ps2dev to move it.

Oobles.

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

I was worried until I saw the post that it was combining with ps2ownz and the money would be used to buy a ps3 dev kit. That pretty much nailed it down as AF joke for me. Before that, I was actually worried enough to make a fresh checkout of the cvs in case it was taken offline. :)

Great joke guys!

pdc · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:18 am Post subject:

I've fallen for them all :(

/me hangs head in shame