... and we all now that already. So this is old news (see http://fossdays.org/ for the official statement of the organizing committee). It's unfortunate, but I can understand their lack of time to organize another "lots" (it was renamed to "fossdays" after the last event).

But what's even more unfortunate is that now the well known domain lots.ch redirects to the company foresite. And no info and nothing about the old events. Really very bad IMHO and their CMS isn't even Open Source. Does anyone try to get some link-love this way? (www.lots.ch has a PageRank of 6, while foresite.ch has a PageRank of 1)

As a consequence, I will remove all our links to lots.ch on this blog and our other pages.

Via sandro on IRC and his post to the issue

Hannes @ 05.12.2005 13:10 CEST
Ugly situation, and its background seems to be even more so..
Anyway, I ordered the link to lots.ch to be taken away from symlink.ch a couple of weeks ago, so thanks for joining that.. erh.. quest .
Anyway, rumor has it that company is just as dead as the trade show, so..

Alain @ 05.12.2005 13:53 CEST
Wow, das ist ja dreist!

blog.andreashalter.ch @ 05.12.2005 15:38 CEST (Trackback)
based on chregus posting about lots I've removed my main links too.Yes, it's sad - but I don't want to comment anything else on this, as part of the decision to shut down lots was based on earlier issues with 'said company'. (and I was surprised about how