[Biojava-l] biojava.com

[Chris Dagdigian]

http://www.bioperl.com/ and http://www.biojava.com/ seem to be owned and 
operated by Jong Park.  The whois info for biojava.com can be seen at: 
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?biojava.com

Jong has "borrowed" our website template when creating his sites which have 
not been updated much (if at all).

The similarity between our sites can be confusing but at the same time 
since we were not on the ball fast enough to grab the ".com" domain names I 
am actually happy that Jong grabbed them. He is a strong proponent of free 
software and his ownership has likely prevented from less altruistic 
corporate entities from grabbing the domain name which would be more 
confusing in the long run.

I look at the whole situation as this:  there is potential for confusion 
between the sites but Jong's ownership has prevented the domain from being 
used by a for-profit industry or software company. I also don't think that 
Jong is 'squatting' in an attempt to make money selling the domains 
eventually, he has legit goals and plans for the sites.

my $.02

-Chris








At 08:07 AM 3/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
>         What's the difference between biojava.com and biojava.org? They seem
>to be slightly different pages.
>-Robin
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