Gaia Capitalist

Gaia Capitalist blogger received this email from Virgin Monday, January 8, 2006:

Darlene,

As previously indicated, Virgin Fuels is in the process of launching its own site. Hopefully this will be in the next week or so.

If you were to agree to transfer ownership of virginfuels.org to us for an amount in the region of what we are suggesting then we would ensure that it was pointed at our site.

Regards

Mark James

Then, on Friday, January 12, 2007 this anonymous comment was posted on the Gaia Capitalist blog.  Pretty obvious who posted it:

Darlene,

Whilst I can see both sides of the legal arguement, I suggest you do the honorable thing from a moral and personal perspective, and take the virginfuels.org site down, and gift it to Virgin, or accept the offer of payment.

To pretend that you are simply doing Virgin a favour by using this resource to publicise your own endeavours - when common sense notes that you have gone out of your way to register the doman - and then solicited 'sponsorship' or 'financial support' for your endeavours - is in poor taste - and certainly insults the Virgin brand, in which you have not invested a dime, nor contributed to - you are attempting to profit from the hard work of others in establishing that brand.

I suggest you focus on getting paid work for your skills.

Anon.

Gaia Capitalist response: very weird.  I'm not pretending to do anything.  None of this is about Virgin.  I'm not even going to respond to the personal nature of this comment.  Anonymous posting is not really proper Internet blog etiquette and it doesn't appear respectful to the legitimate discussion.  01.14.07  23:14