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by LinuxBender 1080 days ago
But it was not really a business, that's what I meant. It was done for fun, and so that Pud could make a name for himself.

That totally makes sense. Being just a forum and just for fun is less of a legal target I think, at least back then. That's cool you wrote a book about it, I had no idea.

Nowadays probably the only way to do this without censorship or taking bribes to promote or censor would be on a .onion site I think and it would probably get DDoS'd into oblivion.