Re: RootsWeb to be Moved to Ancestry.com

Robert Melson wrote:

> Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > > Please 'scuse the multi-post .. thought it the best way
> > > to get this out to "my" groups.
> > >
> > > Interesting article here:
> > >
> > >
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/03/rootsweb-to-be.html
> > >
> > > See also:  http?//blogs.rootsweb.com/newsroom
> > >
> > > RootsWeb to be Moved to Ancestry.com.
> > >
> > > As a more-or-less skeptic, I wonder when the other shoe will drop
> > > and RW will be either terminated or become a for-a-fee service,
> > > despite Sullivan's claims to the contrary..
> > >
> > > Suspicious Ol' Bob
> >
> > silly old BOB
> >
> > my own
> >     http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/index.html
> >
> > is  now also
> >     http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ednkcen/index.html
> > and the old links all work by redirects
> >
> > Hugh W
> 
> 'Scuse me, Hugh, but that's NOW.  Have you thought about, say, 6
> months or a year from now?  I am not saying anything WILL happen,
> only wondering if it MIGHT, and I wouldn't be at all surprised.
> Unlike certain unnamed parties, I have no faith in the kindness and
> generosity of Ancestry OR their parent cor****ation, who're in this
> for the money and not because they're altruists.


exactly
the profit motive means that they will concentrate on survival in the 
face of increasing market saturation and competition


  remember dejanews?

Hugh W


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