Tomi Ahonen's Site is Gone, Memory-holed by Typepad's Shutdown
Yesterday we wrote about how the Linux-based Nokia 770 Internet tablet signalled a new era for Debian, GNU, and Linux, only to end because of Microsoft sabotage half a decade later.
"This link would have been more useful," said a reader. "Unfortunately Tomi Ahonen's *entire* blog disappeared when Typepad ended. He failed to migrate the posts [e.g. this page] somewhere else. That's an additional point -- a lesson about why it's a bad idea to try to rely on proprietary systems..."
All the pages now look like this:
Tomi Ahonen got memory-holed due to outsourcing to Typepad. Some people still refuse to learn a lesson from this.
Some other sites still have coverage of his thoughts. "There are also active disinformation and lies [sites], still online," said the reader about Harri Kiljander.
They had people assigned to do books to rewrite history and pretend that this sabotage never happened. Later it appeared that they did the same about Activision, e.g. via Florian Müller. They'd get people funded to write books that lie about histories of companies they destroyed. █