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The disclosure at the bottom is rather informative: "Disclosure: Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, is a member of EFF’s Advisory Board, and craigslist has donated to EFF."

I find this deeply ironic. I'm intensely curious how much responsibility for the current debacle can be attributed to Craig and how much can be attributed to Jim Buckmaster

The official line at Craigslist and from Craig is that Craig just works there (and owns roughly half the company). Jim's the boss.

Given his ownership share (slightly less than half IIRC given the split between him and Jim and shared held by eBay), that's a slightly disingenuous party line.

Re: Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts

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They no longer need the exclusive since PadMapper's workaround has been effectively killed by the changes Craigslist made to its robots.txt, Google is no longer allowed to index apartments thus PadMapper can not scrape the Google cache.

craigslist didn't change robots.txt:

$ wget -q -O- --save-headers http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt | fgrep Last-Modified

Last-Modified: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:13:24 GMT

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