This is by "Flickr Foundation" (flickr.org). It's a separate entity from "Flickr" (flickr.com).
I could not find out the relationship between the two, but I did see that flickr.org's treasurer is flickr.com's CFO; and flickr.com's "President & COO" is "board observer" at flickr.org.
My first reaction was "they are going to be sued to death because of trademarks", but I am guessing having flickr.com's COO on board of directors makes it less likely.
seems very self-serving to me. They granted us free money to maintain what we are already maintaining as part of our business. This is like giving Google a grant to index the internet. Internet Archive would be more deserving of this grant.
I like the idea, but it seems to have come a little too late to save everything on Flickr.
Flickr themselves started purging any public images over a certain amount on free accounts.
I only found out after seeing a Flickr email in my spam inbox after several months of the start of the purge, so some of my images had already been purged.
I suppose their approach was still preferable to deleting everything at once.
This is by "Flickr Foundation" (flickr.org). It's a separate entity from "Flickr" (flickr.com).
I could not find out the relationship between the two, but I did see that flickr.org's treasurer is flickr.com's CFO; and flickr.com's "President & COO" is "board observer" at flickr.org.
My first reaction was "they are going to be sued to death because of trademarks", but I am guessing having flickr.com's COO on board of directors makes it less likely.
I think the foundation was setup for the lifeboat per the article.
Well, if they do sue them, it'll be easy to get documents back and forth, given Flickr.org and Flickr.com are headquartered in the same office.
From the flickr.org homepage:
"Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…
We’re working on it."
seems very self-serving to me. They granted us free money to maintain what we are already maintaining as part of our business. This is like giving Google a grant to index the internet. Internet Archive would be more deserving of this grant.
I like the idea, but it seems to have come a little too late to save everything on Flickr.
Flickr themselves started purging any public images over a certain amount on free accounts.
I only found out after seeing a Flickr email in my spam inbox after several months of the start of the purge, so some of my images had already been purged.
I suppose their approach was still preferable to deleting everything at once.